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Sea Breeze Community

August 23, 2012

Take any warm, sunny day and there's no better place for Rochester residents than Sea Breeze to satisfy a craving for ice cream or a root beer float while grabbing a Zweigle's hot dog.

Make it a sizzling, humid day and let the steady breeze and cooler temperatures coming off Lake Ontario refresh you. Maybe enjoy a beachside Rum-Rita while watching the slowly setting sun from the Tiki Bar at Marge's ...

For a lucky few, those spectacular sunsets, sandy beaches, bonfires at the shore, kids roller-coastering at the Seabreeze Amusement Park or roasting smores on a warm summer night come wrapped in a communal spirit that has become our lifestyle ...

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Amusement Park and Hot Dog Row

September 4, 2012

Once known as the "Coney Island of Western New York," Seabreeze had become a popular tourist attraction as early as the 19th century. Located in northeastern Irondequoit where the Bay empties into Lake Ontario, it's best known today for the Seabreeze Amusement Park, Hot Dog Row, sandy white beaches, and spectacular sundowns.

If you happen to be in the neighborhood, you owe it to yourself to sample a nationally famous "white hot" at Don & Bob's or Bill Gray's. Then treat the kids to a frozen custard cone at Abbott's. Tell 'em Cal Ripken's father lived here while managing the Rochester Red Wings baseball team ...

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History

September 4, 2012

The Sea Breeeze community can look back on a short but colorful history. As late as 1837, the sand bar was uninhabited. The only buildings on Irondequoit Bay were a house and saw mill owned by an early settler named Joseph Vinton.

Bay history began in earnest in 1840, the year Joe Vincent converted his saw mill to a gin mill. Originally known as the "Old Steam Saw Mill," Joe renamed it the New-Port House in 1842 ...

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Otto's Seabreeze Bonfire

Riparian Rights

September 4, 2012

The beds of Lakes Ontario and Erie are publicly owned. Thus, recreationists have the right to use these waters. However, they do not have the right to cross private lands to reach these waters without permission from the riparian landowner. In addition, private ownership along these major waterways runs to the mean low water mark. As a result, recreationists have no right, except in an emergency, to land on the shore where ownership is private ...

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