The Private Town That Burned To The Ground | Breezy Point Queens 

Gerritsen Beach is across Jamaica Bay from there. You must know the area fairly well, because I've asked native Brooklynites about Gerritsen Beach and they have no idea what I'm talking about.

Anyone can buy a house there. You need to be recommended by three residents (shareholders), approved by the board (no one is ever turned down), and pay for the house one-third in cash.

Makes it easier to rebuild Cameraman, like starting a puzzle with a corner piece.

I think that statement is a total geralization of thousands of people who live in these neighborhoods and it is false.

It’s because the community is run by the Breezy Point Cooperative, in which all residents pay the maintenance, security, and community-oriented costs involved with keeping the community private. The cooperative owns the entire 500-acre community; residents own their homes and hold shares in the cooperative. It has nothing to do with “feeling special” they’re paying for privacy and they’re getting it lmao. Ever live in a gated apartment complex? It’s the same thing on a smaller level. Gated that only residents have key fobs for community areas that only residents can use. This is the sane exact thing just an entire town.

@@PatrickMcManusNY its not I'm from close by...not a very diverse open minded community

@@letsgomets002 Arthur you don't see that both statements are generalization of thousands of people? How close are you within the diameter of the "close minded and suspicious" ?

@@letsgomets002 low crime rates and not dealing with crackheads in the streets or diversity? Hmmm, I know which one I'm picking

Also only one road in and out and private security... I guess you get what you pay for

There is a way to get in. You pay at the little pity at the beginning and you get a token for the gate. I have been going there in the summer sense i was born and the restaurant is called Kennedy's

Must feel like the Kennedy’s lol it is nothing more than a glorified bungalow colony the smell of dog piss in the streets when it does not rain for a week would knock you out. I quest it is luxury living when you don’t have to walk out of the house and knock on the neighbors door to talk just open your window and tap on their window the bungalows are 1 1/2 feet apart

Bungalo

Nobody had to hide in any trunk to get into Breezy. I lived there until 1981 and went back to visit afterward. There weren't any cabanas, either. The place you're thinking about was either the Silver Gull Club (if your friend was Jewish) or the Surf Club (if he was some kind of Protestant).

@@jimmydonlon6762 Definitely not the Silver Gull. Yes, it was catered towards the Jewish community. The club that my friend was a member at had a cabana and the club was down at the end. At that time in 1977 you had to get through the main guard both if you were a resident. There was another guard booth at his surf club that you had to get past if you wanted access. At that time if you weren’t a member you couldn’t get in. This is why we hid in the trunk while my friend drove in because he had the membership.

@@kingarthur4419 I lived there in 1977. You did not have to stop at the guard booth; you could drive on that main road all the way to the Surf Club. Visitors would stop at the guard booth to pick up tokens for the electric gates to the parking lots. The people at those surf clubs had nothing to do with Breezy Point; they didn't like us (although many BP teenagers worked for them). The place where your friend brought you was either at the end of a road that ran between Fort Tilden and a bunch of abandoned unfinished apartment buildings (that got dynamited in 1978) or else at the very end of the road with a spectacular view of Manhattan.

@@jimmydonlon6762 Yes now that you mention it you can drive through that main booth. It’s been years since I’ve been there but I remember when you got off the bride, you went down that long strip to the end. The Silver Gull was on the left before you got to the end. Right before you got to the end, there was a parking lot before the cabana club guard gate, and that’s where we would park to get out and hop in the trunk. Yeah there was an open view of everything and I believe that’s where his club was.

That one was called the Surf Club. It was supposedly fairly ritzy, but I don't think I ever saw the inside.

Course

Yeah lies I literally went today and they turned us away because of our diverse friend group that wasn’t Caucasian

I was tempted to blast through the gates myself to get you guys a good video

Groovy 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

@@ERNIE555 - Hey Annette, how are you and how are things in Deutschland? Glad you postponed your New York trip. Hopefully next year it’ll be much better; if you still want to go.

Groovy ..I am ok thx....went to Rome instead....yep...I just have to wait and see if that crazy country of yours is finding it’s sanity again...and than ,maybe....

@@ERNIE555 - Ha, Ha, Ha - I’m having doubts if my “crazy country” will ever regain its sanity again! If Joe Biden becomes president, I fear it’ll get MUCH worse. All of the riots, violence, looting, burning down of businesses has been perpetrated by the liberals; Joe Biden’s party. p.s.: Rome is nice, I’ve been there twice. In fact, I’ve been all over Italy including Venice and Capri. And OMG, the food is awesome!

I see now. I was wondering how an area technically within city limits and so close to Coney Island and everything else seemed so underdeveloped

Firemen are a different breed

Karl Childers what is VFD?

@@ERNIE555 volunteer fire department

Karl Childers thx....an yes...firefighters love get togethers...with loads of drinks 🤣😂

and thats why they call it Boozy Point.

You need to be recommended by 3 members of the Co-Op and then approved by the board before you can buy a home.

@@stevep8445 no diversity at all in this community, won't see any minorities here even if you the money

It’s actually a tank

I’m sure you’re a allowed on the beach after you pay some people some crazy price

The community owns the beaches. The fed gov't owns the beaches in Breezy Point Tip. Love all the people that seem to have a problem with this concept.. Go buy there if it others you.

Breezy Point doesn't own the ocean, but they own the beach up to the mean low-tide line (an unusual arrangement). You technically can't even walk the beach if you're not a resident or invited guest (a rule that's rarely enforced, thankully).

It’s a rust hole

I know right

@Pauo Bunyon I’ll add that to the list right now

So? Go to Far Rock for your diversity.

@@mrmrso228 obviously ur a racist white clown

@@mrmrso228 I served 4 years for this Fking country just to be racially discriminated by the residents of Breezy point because I wasn’t one of them

@@soleschan2679 sorry to hear that. Maybe if your people knew how to act, this wouldn’t be a problem. Look at what Far Rock turned into. Didn’t always look that way.

but a very safe neighborhood with well kept streets and lacking the friendly neighborhood crackheads that seem to come with every other NY neighborhood. Also you just described the entire city, Flushing is mostly asian, Williamsburg mostly jewish, Harlem is black, Howard beach is italian, why do you only have a problem with the irish neighborhood?