{"id":6320,"date":"2010-10-25T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2015-11-04T07:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:27:53","slug":"these-beach-bungalows-werent-meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/these-beach-bungalows-werent-meant-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"these beach bungalows weren’t meant to be"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Took a trip this past weekend with Flux Factory<\/a> as part of their now year-round artist led bus tours, Going Places Doing Stuff. The first leg of the tour took us to Staten Island via the ferry where we met up with our bus. We drove along the southern shore until we arrived near the Cedar Grove Beach Club, a seaside community with a controversial past and present. Around 40 private residences sitting behind public beach property have recently been claimed via eminent domain by the city, with the plan of condemning them and in all likelihood bulldozing them for the argument of expanding the beach front (even though the residents of these bungalows not only paid the city over $100k in taxes a year, but also hired a full-time custodian to keep the beach clean).<\/p>\n

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