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Second Death at Point in a Month

By GerritsenBeach.net, on June 24th, 2011%

Yesterday, a middle aged man lost control of his car and ended up on the sidewalk. The man was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced DOA.

There is no additional information at this time.

Activity at the Point

By GerritsenBeach.net, on June 9th, 2011%

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Lots of activity at the point. CPR was given to a male.

Update 6/10/11: Obviously something awful happened we don’t want to speculate.

Ticket Blitz in Gerritsen Beach

By GerritsenBeach.net, on August 10th, 2010%

The Traffic Enforcement Agency has apparently discovered Gerritsen Beach’s nook and cranny’s . Recently we have been getting tickets EVERYWHERE.

First Beacon, reports of wrong way dead end parking on Madoc, Garland, Eaton. We are on someones radar.

Now the point! Check out the pictures above and below.

The Point These Days

By GerritsenBeach.net, on July 7th, 2010%

A picture of the Point from Saturday July 3rd of all “outsiders” bringing in Jet Ski’s, BBQ’s, and parties.

What’s wrong with this? Well it’s not really a beach that has lifeguards. We as a community do not need someone that can’t swim drown or hit by a Jet Ski. Which there was an accident recently.

The point is a no standing zone – and it’s for a good reason. All of the buses we have here in Gerritsen Beach need to turn around and they cannot make a U-turn while the Point to Seba is packed with cars.

Then have the fact that it’s not a beach! I’ve seen people and friends summonsed for being there.

You cannot launch boats, Jet Skis, from that area. Basically you can only launch canoes or kayaks.

Lastly, Do they clean up after themselves? I have one word to answer that:NYET!

Jet Ski In Gerritsen Beach from Gerritsen Beach on Vimeo.

Quad Crazies

By GerritsenBeach.net, on July 6th, 2010%

Coming in Via Email: by George

I was at the beach on the 4th of July shooting photos of the water jets (Just testing a new 5D I have) to see the water splashes and fun people were having. I came across a couple of people who asked me to take shots of them to send to their emails. Now I have a long lens, 300mm, and I was taking a shot of a jet ski down beach when I heard this loud sound of a quad getting close to me… I lowered my camera in just enough time to see this idiot coming at me, then swerving within an inch of my feet and kicking sand up my leg. The “gentlemen” yelled to me not to take photos of him! Then sped off….

I then see him pull up to the guardrail at the end of the avenue, get off his quad and proceed to suck down a rather large beer. Now, I’m all for fun as well as anyone, but this guy is speeding down a rather crowded beach, drinking while driving (quad or car, same difference) and basically assaulting someone (me) with a lethal weapon (a rather large quad) and when I walked over and explained that I wasn’t taking photos of him, he actually tried to intimidate me and said he saw the camera pointed at him….

Well, I wasn’t taking a photo of him but I sure did after this encounter. I just want to show him how stupid and dangerous what he did was. I also hope this gets printed so he will think about his actions in the future. If I would have stepped an inch to my left he would have run me down… and for what? Taking a picture! I think that would be a little extreme. I shoot street photos in Manhattan all the time. At times people do not want to be photographed, so I respect that. I lower the camera if they ask, or I delete the shot if they ask after I shoot! It’s not a big deal!

I just cannot believe this guy tries to run me down, and then wants to intimidate me afterwards. Not that I am anyone special, but if you are going to do something like that, don’t do it to someone with a device that can capture your stupidity! Like I said to him as I walked away… “Your not too bright dude…”

Tremendous Storm! Tremendous Damage!

By GerritsenBeach.net, on March 13th, 2010%

There were roofs flying off, house siding flying everywhere, the water at the point was flowing onto the street, there was flooding everywhere, trees falling basically on every block, the Tamaqua started to lose docks.

IT’S CHAOS OUT THERE!

If you can’t tell from the pictures and video below, the current, the winds, and the waves were eroding the point and pushing the sand down creek. It created a sandbar all the way down to Dare Ct.

How did everyone fair without power? We hear the the Old Section came up hours before the New Section.

Check out the literal ton of pictures and video.

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