Hurricane Hermine spares Brooklyn waterfront neighborhoods
Summer's last hurrah at Coney Island, Red Hook
Farewell, fine summer.
Tens of thousands of sun worshippers flocked to Brooklyn beaches and waterfront locales this past Labor Day weekend despite deadly riptides caused by Hurricane Hermine.
On Coney Island, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, beachgoers were not allowed into the water. But they parked themselves on the sand nevertheless to bask in the sunshine on Sunday.
On Monday, the weather was overcast, but stalwarts showed up and planted their umbrellas on the sand anyway. That day, lifeguards and uniformed police officers were stricter about keeping people away from roped-off stretches of shoreline.