- West Meadow Beach
West Meadow Beach is a peninsular of park-land approximately 1.5 miles long located north-west of the Village of
Stony Brook, New York ,New York .The long beach and nearby marshes and wetlands make the area home to a number of bird species; this makes the park a popular spot for wildlife photographers.
In 1996, Assemblyman
Steve Englebright took measures to have 90 cottages built on the land in the 1920s and 1930s demolished, as part of a plan to preserve open spaces in the Assembly; a court ruling in 1979 had deemed the cottages had been built on public land. In December 2004, the remaining residents were evicted and the cottages were torn down, despite a 10,000 strong petition to save them. The cottages had recently been placed on theNational Register of Historic Places but the state-mandated demolition orders took precedence.External links
* [http://www.nwpli.com/photo/locations/location.php?data%5Blocation%5D=westmeadow.php More about West Meadow Beach]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04EEDC1E3CF937A25752C1A9629C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=1 Coverage of the Evictions]
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