Beach
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World
Can a Christian Community Close the Beach on Sunday Mornings?
Along the Atlantic coast, about 60 miles south of Manhattan, is a beach town that defies the rowdy image of the Jersey Shore. In Ocean Grove, where the beach has been controlled by a conservative Christian nonprofit for more than 150 years, no ...
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Miami Beach, Seeking Quieter Spring Break, Sets Curfew
Revelers will be barred from staying out past midnight each night this weekend. In the weeks leading up to peak spring break season, city officials had warned that a curfew was likely.
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Miami Beach Is Done With Spring Breakers: ‘It’s Not Us. It’s You.’
This weekend and next, Miami Beach visitors will face extraordinary measures meant to head off disorderly crowds, including bag checks at beach entrances and closed parking garages.
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N.Y.P.D. Drones Carrying Rafts Could Join Lifeguards in Beach Rescues
Mayor Eric Adams, an avowed technophile, said the drones would be used to assist lifeguards at Coney Island as part of a pilot program starting this summer.
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Travel
Finding a Way Back to ‘Perfect Beach’
On the northern coast of Puerto Rico — about an hour’s drive west of San Juan, off a wisp of a road threaded through dense green foliage — there exists a long, empty beach that has haunted my dreams for years. On Google Maps, it appears as Punta ...
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Sandbox on the Hudson: Going to the Beach Without Leaving Manhattan
You can find sand, sun and Adirondack chairs along the Hudson River. Just don’t try to swim.
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Arts
Flying High at the Beach: Birds, Dancers, Michelson and Merce
With outstretched arms, dancers skimmed across the sand like gliding birds, soundless against the pressing wind and somehow soaring without actual wings. They tipped forward from their hips, leaning their torsos ever so slightly forward. They stood ...
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Real Estate
Manasquan, N.J.: A Beach Town Where Kids ‘Have a Little More Freedom’
This shoreline borough is becoming more polished, but residents still cherish its old-fashioned vibe: “That’s the cool part about growing up here.”
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It Took $1.7 Billion to Fix Fire Island’s Beaches. One Storm Wrecked Them.
Just a few years ago, the beach at Fire Island Pines was almost as wide as a football field, the result of a $1.7-billion government project to combat erosion on the South Shore of Long Island after Hurricane Sandy. The project seemed to provide a ...
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Real Estate
$4.2 Million Homes in California
A midcentury-modern house in Los Angeles, a 1937 cottage in Laguna Beach and a 2021 home in Hermosa Beach.
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