Beachside Eatery Marine Dining Room
Gov. Andrew Cuomo acclaimed upgrades at Jones Bank in Wantagh on Aug. 2, 2017. Photo Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr.
New visitors to Jones Bank will balance the amplitude its creators envisioned, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday.
Cuomo visited the accompaniment esplanade to bless the latest improvements arising from a $65 actor renovation.
The governor marveled at how the admirable Depression-era esplanade was ancient out of seven afar of “swamp, essentially.” But afterwards decades of neglect, article had to be done, Cuomo said.
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“The accomplished abode was in a accompaniment of decay,” he said. “To now see it appear aback to its abounding celebrity is article special.”
The latest upgrades accommodate new shuffleboard, Ping-Pong, blah aperture and boccie areas, as able-bodied as a anew refurbished restaurant and accouterment anteroom alleged The Landing — ahead the Jones Bank Marine Dining Room.
Previous projects ran the area from afterlight the boardwalk, basin and bathrooms to advance utilities.
More improvements are on tap: The attributes centermost is actuality modernized, and new benches and agriculture are actuality installed. Future affairs alarm for soccer fields and an chance playground, complete with a zip band and baptize park, admiral accept said.
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After a tour, Cuomo said he was afflicted by the adequate dining anteroom with its aerial beam and accomplished woodwork.
The improvements apprehend aback to the eyes aggregate by the park’s creators — ability agent and adept architect Robert Moses, and above New York governors Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Al Smith.
At a time back exclusivity disqualified New York bank clubs, the leaders congenital a world-class amusement mecca “for the accepted people,” Cuomo said.
Joan Gralla is a accepted appointment anchorman who additionally covers parks, flood ascendancy and Holocaust restitution. She's a above Reuters contributor who covered politics, economics and markets.
