Bike Path Damage Plumb Beach

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.

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.

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.