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Posted by: Miriam on 5/20/1998@12:49hrs:
Island so safe you can hear the crime drop. If our borough were a separate city, it would be the most peaceful metropolis in the United States. (Headline)
Boy I can't wait to see the negative posts on this.
New York's dramatic crime drop has made the city the safest among the country's 25 largest urban centers, according to crime statistics for the last year complies by the FBI. And extrapolating from the statistics, it would appear that SI - were it a separate city - would be the safest metropolis among 201 American cities with populations of 100,000 or more. With 7.34 million people, the Big Apple recorded a crime index of 4,848 serious crimes per 100,000 citizens, the FBI said, compared to an index of 11,944 for the top of the list, Detroit, which has a population of about 1 million.
Also more dangerous than New York City last year were Baltimore, Nashville, Seattle, Washington DC, New Orleans Dallas, Cleveland, Houston Boston and Los Angeles, among others.
It's been no secret that as crime in the Big Apple continues to fall, SI, which has a population of a little more than 400,000 has been leading the charge. Even relatively sedate and peaceful American town have higher crime rates than SI. Take for example Simi Valley, Calif. (1,979); Thousand Oaks, Calif (2,896); Boise, Idaho (5,126); Newport News, Va. (5,569); Santa Rosa Calif., (6166), and Grand Rapids, Mich. (7.317) Figures in brackets represent number of crimes per 100,000 citizens.
Second Article
The New Lemon Creek Park in Prince's Bay will be open for business by summer. Most of the 84-acre park will be ready by the first week of June. But it will take until mid-summer for the new fishing pier - the park's centerpiece attraction - to be complete.
The more than 300-foot long, 10 foot-wide concrete fishing pier will jut into the Raritan Bay at the foot of Sharrott Ave. in Pleasant Plains. . Next month, park-goers will be able to enter the park at the foot of Sequine Ave and saunter down winding broken stone pedestrian paths that lead to the replenished beach. They will be able to picnic at tables on a large grassy area. There's also a gazebo-like structure, decorated with a dolphin motif, in this area of the park.
Nature lovers will want to take a stroll on a footbridge over a tidal pond. From there, they can look down at the park and admire many different plant species. Throughout the park will be informative signs about Lemon Creek history, including accounts of American Indian Lenapes, the area's first inhabitants. A flagpole in honor of the late conservationist Lou Figurelli has been erected at the park. The Prince's Bay resident, who died in Nov. 94, was the founder and president of the Natural Resources Protective Association on SI.