A popular beach escape for sweltering New Yorkers is back open — and not a moment too soon for those looking to find some relief from the heat index levels that once again will approach 100 degrees
After being closed from Thursday and into Friday, park officials announced that the beach at Jacob Riis Park would be open starting Friday afternoon. The beach had been closed after park officials cited unsafe water conditions.
Samples taken from water along the Queens beachline previously produced high bacteria levels that exceed the National Park Service safety standards. But in a tweet on Friday, the Gateway National Recreation Area, which Jacob Riis Park is a part of, said that the"bacterial levels were back below local, state and National Park Service Standards."
The recreation beach bathing closure has ended at Jacob Riis Park. The beach is again open for swimming. Bacterial levels in water samples taken from this body of water were below local, state and National Park Service Standards for recreational activity.
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