Metro

Seagate’s ‘miracle’ comeback

Brooklyn’s only beach club is back from the dead.

The operators of the 7-decade-old Seagate Beach Club have been working frantically since mid-March to replace the popular private club’s cabanas and rebuild its restaurant, tiki bar, Olympic-size pool and other amenities that were pummeled or washed out to sea during Superstorm Sandy.

“We were completely wiped out,” said club manager Sal Argano.

“Right now, we are doing a miracle to get it open by Memorial Day weekend.”

Many members say they’re pleasantly shocked that the club, located within the gated Coney Island community, is expected to reopen Saturday.

The repairs totaled more than $1 million, and club operators said the job was especially hard because the club had to come up with the money out of pocket after being rejected for federal loans set aside for Sandy victims.

Their insurance also has refused to pay anything to date.

“This club is the only game in town, so for many of us, seeing this reopen when we thought it was lost is just like going from devastation to jubilation,” said longtime member Louis Catuto, 53, of Sheepshead Bay.

The club was originally for Seagate residents only, but eventually opened to others in 1995.

Its more than 1,000 members are now from all over the city and pay $599 in seasonal fees or $4,995 for beach cabanas.

Membership also offers access to Seagate’s private beach.

Membership has increased in recent years, thanks to an influx of the stroller-mom and hipster crowd from the other side of Brooklyn who live in neighborhoods such as Park Slope and Carroll Gardens. The club leases the property from a nonprofit association that runs the gated community.