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West Beech Street a symbol of Long Beach recovery

Originally published: February 18, 2013 7:41 PM
Updated: February 18, 2013 9:30 PM
By VÍCTOR MANUEL RAMOS victor.ramos@newsday.com

Gregg Lapenna, 43, co-owner of The Whale's Tale,

Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Gregg Lapenna, 43, co-owner of The Whale's Tale, a sports bar on West Beech Street in Long Beach. (Feb. 1, 2013)

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Long Beach's West Beech Street, a busy business strip near the sand and surf in this city of more than 33,000, remains a landscape of tattered shops that symbolizes the community's long road to recovery from Sandy.

Many of the more than 50 businesses, including burger and pizza joints, grocery stores, hair salons, restaurants and bars in block after block close to the famed boardwalk, are...

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