'Free again': New Yorkers, virus in mind, head back to their beaches

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NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - After more than a month of closed beaches - and pitched battles over access to the ocean - Rachel Thompson, a schoolteacher, finally frolicked in the surf at Rockaway Beach in Queens.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NEW YORK - After more than a month of closed beaches - and pitched battles over access to the ocean - Rachel Thompson, a schoolteacher, finally frolicked in the surf at Rockaway Beach in Queens.

Still, several beachgoers that morning, Ms Thompson included, were feeling a bit jittery about the city's gradual reopening. It was a partial reversal of his announcement in April that the pools, a vital cooling option in many lower-income neighbourhoods, would not open. Ms Olga Vlasenko, 35, a home health aide, splashed around in a black swimsuit and a pink New York Yankees hat.

Mr Ed Westley, 76, of Queens, took his first swim of the season and saw a pod of dolphins breach and frolic in the water."You feel like corona never happened." As the first deputy commissioner of the city's Department of Parks, Mr Liam Kavanagh put it,"The beaches are going to look different from what they normally do."

 

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