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L.B. police urges bikers to slow down By BRENDAN cARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
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loNg BEAch BIkERS are being urged to slow down in the boardwalk’s bike lane. The new, temporary yellow barriers are the department’s first steps toward new signs.
The Long Beach Police Department spends a lot of time urging motorists to slow down on city roads, but now officers are finding themselves doing the same for speeders on the Boardwalk. Since the police can’t be everywhere at once, the department last week began placing large, yellow barriers along the bicycle lane so cyclists and inline skaters must ease off the speed to get around them. The barriers are between the Lafayette and Laurelton Boardwalk
entrances. “We’re using them as a calming measure to slow people down,” police commissioner Ron Walsh said. “We were getting a ton of complaints about speed and unsafe conditions.” The Long Beach Boardwalk is a hotspot for activity during the summer months and warmer weather, attracting all kinds of visitors, including those on skateboards, electric bikes and others who treat the bike lane as a racetrack. That has become a cause for concern for the Long Beach men and Continued on page 4
Brown, DeLury to go head-to-head for Assembly seat By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com
Both Mike DeLury and Ari Brown have hills to climb in their quest to represent an Assembly district that includes the barrier island and the Five Towns. With primaries now out of the way, their campaigns get underway this weekend. DeLury, the 64-year-old Democrat from Long Beach, lost his reelection bid last year for a second term on the city council. He’s facing an incumbent in this race, the 54-year-old Brown, a Republican who won the seat in a special election last April, but
must now run for a full two-year term. Brown, who also still moonlights as a deputy village mayor of Cedarhurst and has been active in the community for decades — is not as well-known as DeLury in the larger, more diverse Long Beach, which could create some trouble come November. DeLury is also a community activist, and Democrats hold an edge in voter registration in the Assembly district. “Being an incumbent probably does give him an advantage,” DeLury said. “But I don’t think it will affect me. I will do what I have to do, and say what I have to say.”
DeLury has been the village treasurer of East Williston for 10 years, and — unlike Brown — promised to resign his post if elected to the Assembly. “He (Brown) has only held that office since April. He’ s not (Harvey) Weisenberg,” who was a member of the Assembly for 25 years, and is widely known on the barrier island. Lawrence Levy, executive dean of Hofstra’s National Center for Suburban Studies, said this week the race between Brown and DeLury is a microcosm of the national election for President of the United States. “On Long Island, this is a proxy war between Trump and
Biden,” Levy said. Brown was first elected to Cedarhurst’s village board in 2001, but acknowledges DeLury may be better known in Long Beach. Yet, it’s not all about name recognition, and Brown does point out he won the April 7 special election defeating fellow Cedarhurst resident David Lobl with 66 percent of the vote.
“I’m the first Republican candidate to take Long Beach” in an Assembly race, said Brown, an owner of R. Brown Realty — a business started by his father. The company builds homes and stores, including a number of them in Long Beach. “I’m not a guy who grew up in Continued on page 11