To the Editor:
At about 9 p.m. on Nov. 9 my family and I were driving onto the Island and discovered that the Boulevard was flooded due to the rain the day before.
We had to drive on the beach road and saw other cars driving around an object on the street. We stopped to look at it. It was a paddleboard missing a fin and a fin box. We picked it up, threw it in the back of our minivan and drove home with it.
There was an issue, though, because the intersection between our house in Brighton Beach and the beach road was flooded and we didn’t think we could make it…
November 21, 2018
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