Looking into the eye of the beast

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From this park you can see the Verrazano Narrows - one of the proposed locations for floodgates to protect the NYC bay. It would effectively protect Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, and a large portion of Brooklyn and Staten Island. But not southern Brooklyn, and not this area. In the perfect storm scenario, this area would be hit hard. The nearby waterway has already been drastically altered by sediment deposits which have practically shut down the waterway. And this occurred over the last decade and is a direct result of the barriers installed along Coney Island by the Army Corps of Engineers. This was related to me by Larry Major, the regional park manager who has literally watched the sand fill up and change the land mass that is the northern end of Coney Island.