More than four years have passed since an F2 tornado passed through Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.  Much of the neighborhood has since been cleaned up, and rebuilt.  And there really aren’t many signs of the tornado having ever passed through the neighborhood, except for this approximately 50′ stretch of the Shore Road Promenade at Shore Road and Bay Ridge Parkway.

Several benches made out of concrete and wood are still broken, and the fence is still missing.  The area is still covered with a cheap, rickety fence (that is sometimes open or missing parts) to keep people from falling though the missing original fence and down a hill.

It isn’t a surprise that the City of New York hasn’t had the cash to fix this small stretch of park in the four years since the tornado caused the damage.  Afterall, the City has been in a major budget crisis the entire time.  But what is surprising, is that none of the residents who live in the area have gathered together to fix it.

There are numerous million dollar, and multi-million dollar homes within one mile of this location, yet nobody has been able to come forward with the cash to say, “Hey, I have the ten (or 20) grand.  Let me fix it on behalf of the city.”

Someone doing so would be very Romanesque.