Thursday, April 14, 2011
News As Park Slope's Restaurant Controversy Cools, Manhattan Beach's Heats Up
Posted by Henry Stewart on Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:54 PM
While this controversy cools, a similar one may be heating up down in Manhattan Beach, where locals are again butting heads with students from the local community college.
A property owner down there is converting a one-story home into a two-story restaurant, making locals paranoid, the New York Post reports. “It’s absolutely moronic to have this in a residential area,” one local told the paper. “And if they’re going to make a lot of noise, the police will be down there all the time.” Residents worry it will turn into "two floors of partying".
A not-so-subtle subtext seems at play here: namely, that the kids who attend Kingsborough Community College are not the kind you want hanging around. When the term began last month, a board member of the Manhattan Beach Community Group wrote an email in which she typed of the students, "they can’t spell, they can’t read and they certainly can’t drive…that’s the dirt we have to deal with in Manhattan Beach."
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