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NEW YORK CITY – Gray skies and some rain weren’t enough to wash out the unofficial start of summer in New York City!<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
NYC public beaches opened for swimming on Saturday, with lifeguards taking their posts despite a soggy Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n
All 14 miles of city-run beaches<\/a> in the five boroughs are free and open to the public through September 13.<\/p>\n NYC public beaches Cedar Grove Beach:\u00a0Ebbitts Street and Cedar Grove Avenue, Staten IslandConey Island and Brighton Beach:\u00a0Atlantic Ocean, from W. 37th Street to Ocean Parkway, BrooklynManhattan Beach:\u00a0Atlantic Ocean, Oriental Blvd., from Ocean Avenue to Mackenzie Street, BrooklynMidland Beach and Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk:\u00a0Lower New York Bay, from Fort Wadsworth to Miller Field, Midland Beach, Staten IslandOrchard Beach and Promenade:\u00a0Long Island Sound in Pelham Bay Park, BronxRockaway Beach and Boardwalk:\u00a0Atlantic Ocean, from Beach 9th Street, Far Rockaway, to Beach 149th Street, Neponsit, QueensSouth Beach:\u00a0Lower New York Bay, from Fort Wadsworth to Miller Field, Midland Beach, Staten IslandWolfe’s Pond Beach:\u00a0Raritan Bay and Prince’s Bay, Holton to Cornelia Avenues, Staten Island <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Officials are stressing the importance of water safety after a 17-year-old swimmer went missing in the water off Rockaway Beach in Queens this week.<\/p>\n Swimmers are urged to only go in the water when a lifeguard is on duty, which is daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n Color-coded signs displayed at each beach will also indicate its status:<\/p>\n Green: Open with swimming and wading permitted.Yellow: Advisory with swimming and wading permitted, but not recommendedRed: Closed with swimming and wading not permitted. <\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n New York City’s outdoor public pools will open for the summer on June 27.<\/p>\n The Source: Information from this article was sourced from NYC Parks.<\/p>\n New York City<\/a>Things to do NYC<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY – Gray skies and some rain weren’t enough to wash out the unofficial start of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9643,9,12,56,63,65,64,1248,618],"class_list":["post-241689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-good-day","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-things-to-do-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}