Stepping onto Orchard Beach feels like you're in Havana, except the infrastructure hasn't been maintained nearly as well. Just a small portion of the huge colonnade is still used for vending, and only your imagination can make you think of how beautiful it must have been when it first opened in the 1930s. The open, crumbling esplanade is a testament to Robert Moses's aquatecture: He added the man-made beach adjacent to nearby forest land, and though the trees and water are probably just as... More »
