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L.B. Taxi stand forced to leave LIRR station By CHRIS ColUCCI ccolucci @liherald.com
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is following through with plans to build an MTA police district office at the current site of the Long Beach Taxi stand. The taxi service will relocate dispatchers and continue service.
The area surrounding the Long Beach Long Island Rail Road station will see a change in the coming weeks when the Long Beach Taxi stand closes, which is scheduled to occur before the end of September. It will be replaced by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority police office. Long Beach Taxi, which has operated in the city for more than 50 years, plans to relocate its phone operators and dispatch office from its current West Park Avenue site, adjacent to the station. The MTA owns the property, and has subleased it to the taxi company, which is now considering moving to a building in the West End — roughly two miles away. “We just built a brand-new office down on West Beech Street, where West End Auto is,” said Russell Chisholm, the manager of Long Beach Taxi ConTinued on pAge 11
Dennis Carey’s story of life at the beach, and beyond By AIDAN WARSHAVSKY awarshavsky@liherald.com
Few Long Beach residents have as unique a life story as Dennis Carey. His family began frequenting the city in 1921, and three of them still occupy the house on Wisconsin Street in which Dennis’s late mother, Geraldine McCarthy Carey, grew up. Dennis, 78, and his siblings — Geraldine, 82, Bill, 77, Virginia, 72 and twins Tom and Irene, 68 — were self-described “water rats.” They learned how to swim in Reynolds Channel, and swam across it to Hicks Beach, in Lawrence. “There
were no bulkheads on Minnesota and Tennessee at the bay,” Dennis recalled. “That was a rite of [passage] for kids, and my mother said the same things — she and her siblings all swam over to the other side.” Carey joined the Long Beach Lifeguard Patrol in 1966, and said his seven years of lifeguarding were like a “summer fraternity” of watching the beach and having fun. During that time, he said, guards frequently saved swimmers who were pulled out past the jetties by rip currents, but no one ever drowned while they were on duty.
After hours, Carey and his friends Jack Murphy and Randy Dodd hung out at Leone’s, on Park Avenue, property now occupied by Starbucks. They also frequented the original Beachhouse, on Virginia Avenue. In Carey’s rookie year, a cabin cruiser capsized near the rocks off the Maryland Avenue Beach. A half-dozen people were thrown into the water, he recounted, and one was trapped inside on the boat’s lower level. “I got down there and I saw that all the lifeguards left Georgia Beach,” Carey said. “I wanted to make sure that all the people stayed out of the water and no other tragedy was going to
happen. I think there was a child or two on the boat, so it was a real life-threatening situation.” For seven years, Carey worked up and down the beach. In the East End, near Pacific Boulevard, he said, he pulled an unconscious man who had epilepsy from the water, and revived him with mouth-to-
mouth resuscitation. Mike DeLury, who is now the president of the Long Beach Lifeguard Alumni Association, worked with Tom Carey on the lifeguard patrol. “Dennis’s wealth of Long Beach knowledge and the Long Beach patrol is vast,” DeLury said. “Long Beach was a differConTinued on pAge 4