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The gazebo at Southold Town Beach is teetering over crumbling asphalt.<\/p>\n
CBS News New York<\/p>\n
Southold Town Supervisor Al Krupski said erosion is getting worse and putting more sand on the beach doesn’t help.<\/p>\n
“We lost a lot this winter,” he said. “Every storm now comes and hits underneath the parking lot and undermines it, and then the parking lot collapses … Trying to work with Mother Nature, and we’re just in the way here.”<\/p>\n
He’s planning immediate repairs to prevent climbing and driving on the crumbling shoreline, and so walking on the beach will be safe.<\/p>\n
Krupski said he doesn’t just want a Band-Aid, he wants a long-lasting solution. County, state and federal help is needed to elevate adjacent County Road 48, one of the only ways out of Greenport.<\/p>\n
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The brutal 2026 winter took out much of Southold Town Beach’s sand and parking lot, forcing the North Fork gem to close for swimming in the summer.<\/p>\n
CBS News New York<\/p>\n
“We want to kind of do it once in our lifetimes, and hopefully it will hold up,” he said. “You don’t want to spend a lot of money on something that’s not gonna be good for decades.”<\/p>\n
For residents who live on the thin spit of North Fork land between Long Island Sound and the bay, repairs are a must.<\/p>\n
“Now that the beach is closed … I lack words,” resident Vinnie Gallipani said. “It’s one of the beautiful things. My grandkids come out, we go up, and we take a walk on the beach.”<\/p>\n
“It’s gotta get fixed. If that don’t get fixed, we might not be here,” resident Dominick Riccoboni said.<\/p>\n
Any long-term fix has to take into account rising sea levels. The beach’s parking lot already floods, and in 20 years, the water is projected to be 16 inches higher.<\/p>\n
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