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While the Parks Department's solution to the city's garbage is a giant Dumpster amongst the trees, the same thing can't quite help our water. The Daily News has a report card on our beaches, and of the 13 rated in the annual "Testing the Water" guide... things aren't looking so good.
Ratings are based on water quality, testing frequency as well as frequency of advisories issued by the Health Department. Orchard and Manhattan beaches were the lowest rated, and following those are South Beach on Staten Island and Kingsborough Community College Beach in Brooklyn. The good news is that "the majority of Coney Island's sandy shores and the Rockaways were given a clean bill of health." The bad news is that out of a 5-star rating system, every New York spot got 3 or less.
If the sand didn't scare you away, and the subpar ratings won't keep you from your summer dips, you may want to at least hear out the NRDC's Ocean Initiative director, Sarah Chasis. He tells the paper: "Every time it rains in New York ... [the rainwater] flows into the same pipes that carry waste water from homes and buildings. When the water level exceeds what sewage treatment plants can handle, it flows straight into our water." But hey, it's not like it's been raining much this summer... oh wait.
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Aside from that quasi-monsoon we had yesterday [around lunchtime], we have not had much rain.
I wasn't much of a beach-goer as it is, but now I am really staying away from the beach.
I wonder if swimming in the east river would be better.... hmmm.
Did you sleep through June?
You bet I did. What was the point of being outside?
I also buried my sunglasses and started reading the LAist. =D
Ooh, what's happening on the left coast?!
Sunshine. And lots of it. Their beaches aren't nearly as nice as ours but who's is.
In fairness, New York City is great. I just wouldn't think beach when I think NYC.
Well in other news, UCLA got rid of their undie run.
Cannot understand why the Parks Dept still uses those ridiculous trash cans. Guaranteed to distribute the trash all over the sand. Truly idiotic. Have they never been to a beach like in LA that has cans that actually contain the trash?
It is obvious that they don't give a ....
Seriously, if you intentionally get within 5 feet of the water anywhere in NYC, you deserve whatever illness you catch.
Worst offenders are the parents in DUMBO who let there kids 'play in the sand' under the Manhattan Bridge.
Having grown up here, I was always told that the water was poison. Now it's worse, but people just want to live in some Palinesque cognitive disassociation fugue-like state regarding the quality of their local environment.
Staph! It's the new strep.