DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 



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A SEA SWEPT PARK. 



Coney Island Concourse Park has again suffered by reason of 

 the destructiveness of fall and winter storms. During the sum- 

 mer quite a stretch of land was regained, but one fall storm took 

 this away, and in addition many hundred square feet of the park 

 and one of the shelters. The largest shelter had the flooring torn 

 out, and at high tide it stands out in the ocean. It looks as 

 though it, too, would be swept to sea before the winter is over. 

 Thousands of dollars have been expended by the hotel owners to 



WINTRY SPORT ON" THE LAKE. 



preserve their property from the encroachment of the sea, but it 

 has been unavailing. The relentless sweep and swirl of the ocean 

 currents demolish every obstacle as though it were made of straw. 

 Only a natural change in the direction of these currents will avail 

 to save the island, which has at one point been cut through to 

 Sheepshead Bay. More than half of the Concourse Park, together 

 with the Concourse Drive that ran through it, now lies at the 

 bottom of the ocean. 



