Exclusive | Some NYC death jetties finally set for removal this fall: A piece of us died with him

This summer will mark the seventh that John Munoz’s kin will spend without the beloved teen — while the dilapidated jetties they say killed him will continue to dot Rockaway Beach.The 70-year-old “death” pilings are finally on track to be removed starting in November, but that’s two months after lifeguards hang up their suits for another season — and years too late, according to the grieving family.“I’m deeply saddened it’s taken this long for them to remove [them],” said Yenesnia Rodriguez, Munoz’s sister, to The Post.“My family and I have always heard the stories of Rockaways claiming lives, so we always knew how dangerous it was,” she said.“But until it hits you, you don’t realize how dangerous it is.“The jetties have always been a hazard — even before I was around.

Until this day is still a hazard.”The US Army Corps of Engineers is now finally drafting fresh plans to remove the structures — among 19 clusters of jetties along the Queens shoreline — as part of the Rockaway Crossovers Construction Contract, which is similar to another proposal that had been dragging on for years.The corps first sought to rip out the wooden planks in 2020 as part of a different beachfront project but disastrously stuck itself wth contractors who “never got to” the dangerous pilings, said city Councilwoman Joann Ariola, calling the previous plan a “bureaucratic nightmare.”The military expects to begin seeking new crews for the work in October, with the city Parks Department footing the bill, the agencies said.If all goes well, the work will begin as soon as November, Ariola said.“Besides the riptide and any type of shark attack, [the jetties are] probably one of the most dangerous parts of the water that can take the lives of swimmers and our surfers,” she said.“They become submerged when the tide comes in, and you cannot see them.”The Republican pol said the new plan is a “positive” but that news of it is little consolatio...