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Jacob Riis Park is dying:

Shuttered concessions. Broken benches. Crumbling railings. Abandoned and overgrown handball courts.

More than 30 years after Jacob Riis Park beach was taken over by the federal government, beachgoers charge vast parts are a disgrace.

“It used to be beautiful here but not anymore,” said Joan Thomas, 63, of Flatlands.

“[The city has] cleaned up Coney Island; they cleaned up Brighton Breach, but nobody has cleaned up here,” Thomas said. “You’d think the federal government would take better care of it.”

For many beachgoers, the biggest gripe is the still-unopened famous Art Deco bathhouse.

An overhaul that began in the early 1990s to the once-crumbling structure is still not done, even though federal officials said it would be completed and open last summer.

Except for cops’ and lifeguards’ offices and bathrooms, the building is still largely empty this summer.

“It’s a waste,” said Josephine Urso, 78, from Pelham Bay in the Bronx. “There’s all that property and nothing is there.”

Riis was the city’s largest bathing beach when it opened in 1912 under the name Seaside Park. The Art Deco bathhouse opened in 1932.

But in 1972, during the fiscal crisis, the area was handed over to the feds and folded into Gateway National Recreation Area, the first urban national park, which also includes Sandy Hook in New Jersey and Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn among other areas.

Since then, advocates charge it has not received the recognition — or funding — it requires.

“Yellowstone National Park has national prominence that Jacob Riis doesn’t have, so funding doesn’t go to Jacob Riis Park,” said City Councilman Joseph Addabbo (D-Queens).

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