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Friday, November 30. 2012

More Bridgeport ruins: Pleasure Beach


Pleasure Beach is a 3-mile barrier beach that runs from the outside of Bridgeport Harbor east to Stratford. Once known as Steeplechase Island when it was made into a beachside amusement park by the developer of  Brooklyn's Coney Island. That's all gone now.


Parts of Pleasure Beach are owned by both towns. Arsonists burned the bridge in the 1990s, and it has not been rebuilt. There are abandoned summer shanties on it now - and Piping Plovers.


It probably did not do too well during Sandy. I'd propose leaving it as a nature preserve with a small summer boat landing for picnics.


 


Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 05:36 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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From what I've heard, Stratford intends to level their side of the island. Current plans for the Bridgeport side involve the conversion of the old Pleasure Beach site into a nature preserve with a network of trails.
#1 Phil Jr. on 2012-11-30 07:50 (Reply)
Motto of Bridgeport: "Arsonists burned the bridge in the 1990s, and it has not been rebuilt."
#2 vanderleun on 2012-11-30 14:52 (Reply)
An enjoyable week long series. Any sequels? (Lynn, Mass?....Allston, Mass...(Harvard is and has been buying ALL the available Allston property for a number of years)...?
#3 Garry on 2012-11-30 16:45 (Reply)

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