With Memorial Day on the horizon, the environmental advocacy group Save The Sound issued its report on the state of Long Island Sound’s beaches covering Connecticut and New York. See full report here
Bridgeport is represented by two beaches in the survey, at the majestic Seaside Park and Seabright Beach, a tidy escape for Black Rockers on Seabright Avenue near the S.S. Norden Club.
From Save The Sound
At simultaneous press events in New Haven, on Long Island, and in the Bronx, Save the Sound released our 2025 Long Island Sound Beach Report on May 20, just days before Memorial Day Weekend and the start of a new swimming season. The Beach Report offers good news for swimmers, noting that 72% of nearly 200 public and private Sound beaches earned “A” or “B” grades for water quality in the 2024 swimming season. The biennial report presents comprehensive grades for 204 swimming beaches from 2022 through 2024 and includes a list of the 10 highest scoring public beaches in both New York and Connecticut based on a three-year average of water quality grades.
The Beach Report also lists the region’s 10 lowest scoring public beaches.
Beach Grades are assigned based on how water samples collected by health departments around the Sound perform against state safe swimming criteria. Samples are collected throughout the swimming season under wet and dry conditions and are analyzed for levels of fecal indicator bacteria. The 2025 Beach Report raises concerns about the water quality impacts of rain events driven by climate change. That overall percentage of A and B grades was down from our last Beach Report, when 78% of the monitored beaches received a B- or better.
The Long Island Sound region averaged 18.3 inches of rain over the last three years, which matches 2011-2013 as the highest three-year total in our records dating back to 2003. Annual rainfall totals are expected to continue increasing, as is the frequency and intensity of severe storms, a consequence of climate change that will impact water quality around the region.
Thsi Picture of Seaside Park sums it up, Port’s governance cut the Port/baby in half, sells it out to the highest bribe. 🙂
Look at all that all dead space, land that was turned into a dumping ground. How much Port park recreational space sold out for money in the form of Jeff’s Gold Coast vision for the Port and it’s people. Thanks to cheap governance/elected/appointed officials that sold out it out for bribes, and kick backs. Not that I have an issues with bribes or kicks backs, I don’t 🙂
However, its what you are bribing for. Port bribes tend to degrade instead of building up. The Port is currently looking to the State to address parking that the Port governance body created. A decision that degrades the Port. Perhaps through the status quo of Port governance bribes and kick backs. “You have to give something to get something in the Port” 🙂
Development is based on planning and vision. But that vision for the Port may come for the Jeff’s Gold Coast investments. Unfortunately brides and kickbacks tend to be only about the money and power for Port pols players. 🙂
Take the current issues regarding the East Side development of the 74 unit apartments building. I don’t even want to get into the old Testo’s Lot in the North End investment, development.
There is nothing to stop a profitable investment on that land in the form of housing and that can address the parking needs that is beneficial to the Port, as whole.
You can have a building with commercial rentals on the front street level as a decent rental space inside. like the the other buildings around it, and have the remaining space as underground, street level parking behind it with an entrance on the side of the lot.
That’s the first floor, street level, shit you can perhaps can additional parking under that it you want. Then you have apartments on the next four levels. I don’t think five story is to much, consider the location, by a highway entrance, six stories perhaps may be accommodate the lost of the first level of parking my seem suitable.
It’s not that difficult, but when the “vision” of investment is Jeff’s Gold Coast standard for the Port the game is a bit different. JS
P.S Design is important. I have to say whoever developed the Extra Space Storage building on State Street has the Port best intentions. It is a visually pleasant building design for a storage that you see when driving into the Port on 95 for NY, JS, good job. 🙂
No reason a similar approached mind set for the Port’s development can’t be applied to the that East End. Well outside of the Jeff’s Gold Coast intent for the Port and its development.
Investors/designers of the Port, the Prophet carries a stick. JS
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lx8wEHEsv6I
What say you Ye? Wait for it. Try to play nice,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naeJmi2CUDI
Click count, 🙂
Memorial Day week tribute,
Cool song, tribute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9K1diEGHDY