Bike Path Damage Plumb Beach

Apologies for being the barer of more bad bicycle news.

Not sure if anyone has posted about this yet, but part of the bike path that connects Sheepshead Bay with Flatbush Ave en route to the Rockaways or around to Canarsie Pier was damaged about two weeks ago in a storm and has been closed since. If you rode the path, you knew it was coming because this year's storms have battered the area quite a bit. I don't know when it will be fixed, (think it is under the Park's Dept domain) but thought I'd pass this on to fellow two-wheelers. It's a great path and essential for rides to Rockaway beaches and gets a lot of use from walkers and rollerbladers, etc. Hopefully it gets fixed soon and also the beach and dune are able to be restored. For now, you have to detour onto grass.

More from a local blogger here:
http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2009/11/hurricane-ida-destroys-plumb-beach/

Plum Beach is not Plumb and neither is the bike path. Hopefully though the bike bath will be made plumb again.

Flo: Thanks for letting people know about this and including links to our posts. Here are a few more:

Plumb Beach Destruction Goes Beyond Bike Path

Leaders Consider Long Term Solutions For Plumb Beach

Yesterday, the Parks Department was supposed to issue a request for proposals from contractors looking to the immediate work of placing concrete and sandbags along the breakline to prevent further damage. This has been done before and isn't very useful, but so it goes. Following that, Congressman Weiner has requested that the agencies work together and submit a long term plan for Plumb Beach, Sheepshead Bay marina, and the Manhattan Beach peninsula that would protect against further erosion and sand displacement (Sheepshead marina is filling in with sand). That would likely involve building manmade sandbars and peninsulas to weaken the current into the bay.

modsquad: It's Plumb, not Plum. Common mistake, and even Wikipedia lists it as Plum. But Parks Department and all the other relevant agencies list is as Plumb.

oh sucks, i like that path!!!

SheepsheadBites.com wrote:

modsquad: It's Plumb, not Plum. Common mistake, and even Wikipedia lists it as Plum. But Parks Department and all the other relevant agencies list is as Plumb.

SheepsheadBites, here's the search under the Parks department. for Plum Beach:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/phpdig/index.php?q=plum+beach
it actually shows how to get to Plum Beach.
For Plumb Beach:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/phpdig/index.php?q=plumb+beach
talks about plumbers or plumb piles.

SheepsheadBites.com wrote: Flo: Thanks for letting people know about this and including links to our posts.

You're welcome, Sheepshead. I'll look to your blog for news about what's happening with repairs if I can't get down there during winter. (When I first noticed the closure and searched for news about it, your site was the only thing I found. I see the Daily News did cover the story this week though.) I'm a bike path regular, though I don't live in your neighborhood, so I look forward to good news about the path's restoration. Likewise, I hope to hear to good news about some of the larger environmental issues happening in the area.

modsquad: Apparently NYC Parks is the only one to do so. But since it's a federal area, I'll go with what the feds have to say. And the US Geological Survey lists it as Plumb Beach, as do the National Parks Service and Gateway Recreation Area websites. If you google "Plumb Beach" and "Plum Beach" separately, you'll find the former has more respectable results (like my site!)

Also, and perhaps most importantly, the residents of that area spell it as Plumb Beach.

I suppose it's quibbling, really, since in five years the whole place will be washed away anyway, no?