The recent discovery of a wild wallaby along the Coney Island Boardwalk is the highest-profile example of the area’s decades of neglect.
Which is scariest in the land of thrill rides, hot dog-eating contests and mermaid parades?B). A frozen dip in the Atlantic on Jan. 1 with the Polar Bears ClubIt’s so bad that more than 30 injury claims were filed in the past five years by people merely out to enjoy the salt air, according to City Comptroller data reported by CBS News.
In such a climate, neglect is not merely the natural order of things, but a tool to turn the clock back to the bad old days of violence and squalor. Errant nails like this one are among the many dangers faced by visitors to the Coney Island boardwalk.But I nearly broke my neck every time I set foot on the promenade this summer; how cyclists manage to survive is a real wonder., Yevgeniya Bereznyak collected $125,000 after falling on a damaged section of boardwalk between West 5th and West 6th streets.
But cut through the minutiae and the big picture is really quite simple: the “world’s greatest city” should be able to make its most famous waterfront esplanade safe to walk upon.Fixing it might be more complicated than just getting out some hammer and nails, but not that much more complicated.@NYPDnews/Twitter
Surely there’s a way to pay for a safe-and-sound boardwalk — but for that to happen, Mayor Eric Adams has to care.
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