Jones Beach park on endangered spaces list
Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | A girl chases the waves into shore at Jones Beach in Wantagh. (Aug. 17, 2012)
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Jones Beach State Park has been named an endangered cultural landscape by a national preservation group.
"Over the years, funding shortages, deferred maintenance, and a lack of comprehensive preservation planning for the site has led to an incremental yet significant loss of integrity," according to the annual listing by Washington, D.C.-based The Cultural Landscape Foundation. The iconic...
