We got an email yesterday from someone who’s created a blog called Save Manhattan Beach Architecture. Its subject matter is not hard to figure out. At issue is a house at 230 Corbin Place, which is coming down. The blogger writes: our local architectural history is in jeopardy. For the past few weeks, I noticed […]

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The Manhattan Beach Community Group, which has provided amusement in the past, particularly with the idea of beach privatization last year, is now proposing to block renters from joining its ranks. An email says that it is “leaving us without a say in our own community. It is completely unfair and I’m hoping someone will […]

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[Image courtesy of the Brooklyn View] When last we paid attention to Manhattan Beach, the neighborhood chitchat was about privatizing the beach to keep out “thugs.” Well, the Manhattan Beach Community Group, from whence the controversy came, is electing a president. (Bear us out on this, it gets quite interesting.) GerritsenBeach.Net, which does a superb […]

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We should note that that Manhattan Beach Civic Group voted yesterday to “disavow” those controversial ideas about checkpoints, metal detectors & privatizing the beach to keep “thugs” out. There was apparently quite a spirited discussion, which you can read all about at Gerritsen Beach.Net. What’s just as interesting, though, is that the blogger that broke […]

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[Photo courtesy of vOv/flickr] That “Emergency Meeting” that was supposed to happen in Manhattan Beach to discuss solutions to the “thug” problem on the beach never happened. It was canceled, probably because in the words of organizers Dr. Ron Biondo, it was “no longer necessary.” The development was reported by GerritsenBeach.net, which first brought word […]

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[Photo courtesy of GerritsenBeach.Net/flickr] We know a good story when we see one and the one first reported by GerritesenBeach.Net that we posted about on Sunday was a very good one. That’s the one about the suggestions that Manhattan Beach privatize its public waterfront, put a police checkpoint on the bridge from Sheepshead Bay and […]

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[Photo courtesy of Incandenza/flickr] The headline that our friends at GerritsenBeach.net put up caught our attention: “Manhattan Beach and Their Bunker Mentality.” Why, you might ask? Because Dr. Ron Biondo, President of the Manhattan Beach Community Group, is holding a emergency meeting on Thursday, June 21 @ 8:00 PM, in response to “graffiti, litter and […]

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