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for larger version       Addabbo To Sponsor Rockaway Family Day City Council Member Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., has announced that he and the New York City Parks Department will sponsor a family day at Rockaway Beach. More ...
Rescue workers raced to Beach 120 Street and Beach Channel Drive last Friday morning to pull a man, who police said leapt from the bay wall, from the waters of Jamaica Bay. The NYPD Harbor Emergency Service Units, EMS and the NYFD all responded. More ... Beachcomber Approximately 350 locals showed up for Lew Simon’s “Take Back Our Beaches” rally on the Boardwalk last Tuesday night, far fewer than there were last year for a similar rally, when at least 1,500 people showed up. Perhaps it was the inclement weather or perhaps it was that people are tired of the iss More ...
The Chamber of Commerce of the Rockaways hosted its annual golf outing last week. From left, Steve Good, the owner of the Beach Club, the venue for the award dinner, Allen Corby, Liz Sulik (both of PHC), Roy Messerole, Joanine Omeste (Chamber Executive Director), John Lepore (P Chamber President), B... More ...
By Howard Schwach Colman Genn had a profound impact on education in Rockaway as well as in New York City as a whole, but few here not connected to the public school system will remember his name. More ...
Dance Dimensions held its 24th Annual Dance Recital on June 27 at M.S. 180. Top row, left to right: Brittany Rivera, Claudia Manganiello, Nicole Yamorski, Samantha Travers, Jada Barta. Center row, left to right: Rebecca Wynter, Jasmine Brunson, Veronica Welsh, Brianne Brunson. Bottom row, left to right: Clarissa Barnes, Lauren Moule and Sydney Lyncook. More ... Far Rockaway Benefits And Information Fair The Coalition for Far Rockaway’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Committee is hosting a “Far Rockaway Benefits and Information Fair” on Wednesday, August 18 at the Beach Club on Beach 116 Street between 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The exhibitors include Accion New York, Catholic Charities, Caribbean Women’ More ...
On August 4, NYC will auction off about 20 small parcels of land in Broad Channel. Dan Mundy, president of the Jamaica Bay Eco Watchers, and Don Riepe, Jamaica Bay Guardian have agreed that some of these parcels are important wetlands and should be turned over to NYC Department of Parks & Recreation More ...
The borough of Queens South Graffiti Clean Up gathered in Rockaway on Saturday, July 17, to clean 12 locations on the peninsula. Among the participating groups in the clean up effort were the 100 Precinct Explorers, NYPD School Safety Explorers Posts 2222 and 2241 from the 113 and 107 Precincts, the More ...
The Graybeards recently collected $21,000 for the community of Julian, California. The money was raised to benefit the eight Julian volunteer firefighters who responded to the October 2003 wildfires in San Diego and subsequently lost their homes in the blaze. The Graybeards collected the money in th More ...
By Miriam RosenbergContributing Editor The 101 and 100 precincts, the two NYPD police precincts that serve Rockaway, joined the other precincts that make up the Queens South Command at an Annual Harmony Picnic that took place at Cunningham Park on July 20. More ...
The coaches of the New York Junior Tennis League honor Mrs. Gloria Grant, manager McDonald’s on Beach 92 Street and Beach Channel Drive with an appreciation award for McDonald’s continued support of the youth of Rockaway. More ...
The two City Council members who represent Rockaway have teamed together to provide $500 thousand for the building effort of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, a spokesperson for the center announced recently. More ... Meeks Lauds Pledges To Rebuild Haiti Congressman Gregory W. Meeks has welcomed the results of the International Donors Conference on Haiti, which concluded on Tuesday. The United States and other international donors pledged just over $1 billion to help rebuild Haiti, an amount that exceeded the conference goal of $924 million. More ... Leaky Gas Main Sparks PS 43 Evacuation More than 300 summer school students and faculty were evacuated from PS 43 in Edgemere on Wednesday, when a construction crew working nearby a high-pressure gas main punctured the main, releasing gas to the atmosphere. More ...
The small speedboat and trailer seen here, just a few feet west of the Beach Channel High School boat ramp, has been parked in the same spot for more than a week and is angled out into traffic, which creates a hazard at night when it is harder to see.The boat, which was gutted and is now just a fibe... More ...
Ninety Kearney students received awards for outstanding performance in this year’s National Latin Examination. With more than 145,000 students participating nationally, Kearney students did very well. Caterina Bosetti scored a perfect paper, while 15 other students received gold summa cum laude cert... More ...
Jennifer Krol of P.S. 114 was honored at City Hall for an essay she wrote on New York’s Cultural Institutions. Chosen from more than 700 entries received by the Cultural Institutions Group at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Krol read her essay to commissioners and dignitaries at City Hall. Krol also... More ...
Christina Carter of Arverne recently caught a big fish in Margaretville in upstate New York. The nine year old caught the fish with only two small pieces of kernel corn. More ... Graduates From Clark University Anthony Colon of Rockaway Beach graduated with a Master of Public Administration from Clark University in Massachusetts on Sunday, May 23. Colon attended Talent Unlimited High School. More ...
William O’Connor of Bradenton, Florida will be celebrating his 5th birthday on July 27th with his parents, Bill and Peggy, and his little sister, Bridget. William’s father, Bill, is a former resident of Broad Channel. More ... Completes Navy Boot Camp Navy Seaman Apprentice Gregory Riley, son of Lenora J. and Anthony P. Riley of Far Rockaway, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Riley completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical in More ...
Hazardous, filthy and unhealthy- those are some of the words used to describe the state of the former courthouse on Beach Channel Drive and Beach 92 Street by Rockaway resident Jim Hurley, who provided these pictures to The Wave. More ... Charged With Ripping Off State An Arverne man has been charged with theft of Unemployment Insurance benefits in an investigation that found 12 Queens residents involved in that illegal activity. More ... Hammels Woman Stabs Son, 11, Three Times By Howard Schwach Nuvia Tatum has reportedly told her son not to borrow a neighbor’s bicycle after he damaged the bike on a previous occasion. More ...
The entire Osprey Club group that worked on the marsh study. More ... RMAC To Host ‘Culinary Extravaganza’ 08-19 Rockaway Music & Arts Council (RMAC) is cooking up a “Midsummer Culinary Extravaganza” for Thursday, August 19. More ...
By Brian Magoolaghan Spy David Scharf’s BlackBerry and you’ll see a few hot phone numbers that he keeps right at his fingertips: Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, billionaire Carl Icahn, hotelier Ian Schrager and – Shore Car Service. More ...
On Sunday, July 11, members of the Daniel M. O’Connell Post of the American Legion and Ladies Auxiliary hosted 83 residents of the St. Albans Veteran Hospital to an “Everybody’s Birthday” party. Accompanied by their caregivers, the veterans were treated to dinner, entertainment, games of chance and More ... Pheffer: Minimum Wage Battle Pays Off Assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer has announced that a major agreement has been reached between the Assembly and Senate to increase the state’s minimum wage to $7.15. More ...
The Ninth Annual Sandcastle Contest sponsored by Barbara Morris of West End Realty will be held on the Beach at Beach 116 Street on Sunday, July 25. Registration will begin at noon, with the contest itself lasting from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. More ...
By Shelly Banjo As garbage piles reached the second floor of 249 Beach 15 Street and the foul stench of overflowing toilets filled the building, over 100 tenants screamed at policemen Tuesday in search of answers. More ...
Oluyemi O. Badero, MD, has been appointed Chief of Cardiology at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, South Shore. Dr. Badero is a Yale University-trained and highly regarded specialist in interventional cardiology. Interventional cardiology provides treatment for patients with diseases of the heart, bloo More ...
Gerard and Leslie Valentine of Breezy Point recently opened Rita’s Ices of Oceanside. More ...
In a “significant move” to upgrade emergency medicine services, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital has inked an agreement with Rockaway Physicians, PLLC, to assume management and physician staffing of the Emergency Department (ED) effective July 1, 2004. While Rockaway Physicians, an emergency medicine p More ...
Now that the city’s Arts Commission has approved the corrected plans for Tribute Park, the long-awaited memorial to those Rockaway residents who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, work has resumed slowly at the Beach 116 Street and Beach Channel Drive site. The Firefighter’s Monum... More ... |
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