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Rockaway Beach area is fenced to protect endangered plovers' nesting ground
A group of endangered birds that breed on the Atlantic coast have shrunk in numbers this year after violent storms wiped out several nests in the Queens area, conservationists said. The piping plover … more →
Going Coastal
Rockaway Beach area is fenced to protect endangered plovers' nesting ground
goingcoastal wrote 3 days ago: A group of endangered birds that breed on the Atlantic coast have shrunk in numbers this year after … more →
Rockaway rezone set for city OK
goingcoastal wrote 1 week ago: The first comprehensive rezoning of much of the Rockaway peninsula is set to be approved by the City … more →
Beach disparity in Rockaway is a black and white issue
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goingcoastal wrote 1 week ago: Call it a tale of two Rockaways. Maybe it’s about race. Maybe class. Maybe both. Whatever it i … more →
Lifeguard Janet Fash swims in political deep end in Queens
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goingcoastal wrote 2 weeks ago: Janet Fash sweeps her hand across the beach of Beach 96th St. one of six bays of Rockaway where sh … more →
Union Boss Criticized After a Death in the Surf
goingcoastal wrote 2 weeks ago: He may look cool and relaxed in his white Mercedes, golden tan and trademark pink polo shirts, but f … more →
Houston Calls
devoges wrote 3 weeks ago: Houston Calls is a 5 piece music group hailing from, rightfully named, Rockaway New Jersey. Shortly … more →
Anchors Away
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avogueidea wrote 3 weeks ago: In the spirit of summer, I wanted to write a post about the cute nautical clothing. I just got ba … more →
2008 Yolanda Garcia Community Planner Award Winner Announced
LT wrote 1 month ago: Jeanne DuPont, Executive Director of the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance (RWA), is the 2008 winner of t … more →
Man arrested, taken to jail in handcuffs, for wading in Rockaway Beach
goingcoastal wrote 1 month ago: A Queens dad trying to beat the heat at Rockaway Beach was arrested and hauled off in handcuffs - … more →
Lack Of Lifeguards Cuts Down On Queens Beach Fun
goingcoastal wrote 2 months ago: After trying to have a good time in the water at Queen’s Rockaway Beach Friday, Josey Miranda and … more →
IN FAR ROCKAWAY, PRETTY BEACH MEETS HOUSING BUST
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goingcoastal wrote 2 months ago: The Rockaway Peninsula’s tortured development history enters its latest chapter, with ill-fate … more →
A Commute From Rockaway, Now With a Harbor View
goingcoastal wrote 3 months ago: Amid whipping wind and rain and beneath gloomy gray skies, a new ferry service was born yesterday, s … more →
Five Borough Ferry Service Makes Its Maiden Voyage
Joe Filippazzo wrote 3 months ago: Though Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan sank before it was ever launched, perhaps the cit … more →
Queens Crew Team Finds Unexpected Joy On The Water
goingcoastal wrote 3 months ago: For 34 years, the Beach Channel High School crew team has rowed on city waters. There is plenty of w … more →
Ferry Service, for $6, From Rockaway
goingcoastal wrote 3 months ago: A subsidized ferry route from Rockaway to Lower Manhattan, via Brooklyn, will begin next week as par … more →
Rezoning proposal to protect the Rockaway peninsula
goingcoastal wrote 3 months ago: Public review is set to begin Monday on a massive rezoning proposal to protect the Rockaway peninsul … more →
Rockaway Retiree Learns to Paint
Henry wrote 4 months ago: John Russo hates puzzles. So, years ago, he would doodle whenever his family would put one together … more →
Rockaway, Nabes To Get Ferry Fleet This Summer
goingcoastal wrote 5 months ago: Residents of south Queens are excited that they might soon find their morning commute to Manhattan q … more →
Save Masjid Rockaway!
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ibn1brahim wrote 5 months ago: “Assallamu Alaikum dear respected sisters and brothers in Islam!I have been giving Jumma an … more →
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