Initially ambitious plans were cut back to cover just a few miles of beaches.
Last year, the mother and child were among three people who drowned off the city's 12 miles of public beaches.
We headed past several miles of beaches into hillier country.
Are you going to put nets out along two and a half miles of beaches?
"It was a natural for us because we have miles of beaches."
New York needs 600 lifeguards to cover 14 miles of beaches.
From here south west, M-25 hugs the bay and its miles of beaches.
It is a holiday town with 7 miles of private beaches.
The city's 28 miles of lakefront beaches open to the public June 24.
The cliffs soon give way to miles of long sandy beaches.
