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Montauk preservation plan polarizes

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It’s preservationists versus surfers in Montauk, where plans to protect a historic lighthouse currently involve building a stone seawall, which surfers say would destroy the waves at a nearby beach. The Army Corps of Engineers is intent on building the seawall as part of a $14 million plan to preserve Montauk Light. Surfers wonder why the entire lighthouse cannot be moved back from the edge of the eroding bluff on which it sits. more [NYT]