The Roy Reuther Senior Center holds crochet classes every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at 711 Seagirt. Hot meals are offered. Thomasina Hudson is pictured with one of her works. More...
The Rockaway Sunset Diner, located at the corner of Beach 116 Street and Beach Channel Drive, is right across the street from Jamaica Bay and vistas of Manhattan. The diner is open 24-hours each day and serves traditional diner fare. More...
The students and staff at P.S. 183 raised more than a $1,000 for Tsunami victims at a bake sale held earlier this month. The project exceeded the expectations of its supervisors, Maria Scaffa and Emily Black. More...
When Rabbi Marjorie Slome, the new rabbi at the West End Temple, moved away from counseling to go back to the pulpit, she expected lots of challenges, but not the one that she faced on her first day at West End. More...
Peninsula Hospital Center has welcomed Pierce Ferriter, M.D. to its Division of Orthopedic Surgery as an attending physician. Dr. Ferriter will also be maintaining a private office at the Hospital Center. A Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. More...
When Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer was solicited by the Queens Borough President Helen Marshall for nominations from her constituency to receive recognition for their work with people with disabilities, she immediately thought of Joseph Featherstone. More...
Midshipmen Thomas McDonald of Breezy Point was one of 193 U.S. Merchant Marine Academy students who marched in the inaugural parade for President George W. Bush in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, January 20. More...
The recent snow storm that dropped 14 inches of snow on Rockaway and Broad Channel has spurred a spate of complaints about people who are using cones and pails to More...
City Council Member Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. has announced that on Sunday, January 30, at 12 p.m., Howard Beach business owner Danny Chan, who owns Danny More...
Arizona Governor, Janet Napolitano, Senator John Kerry, New York State Democratic Party Chair Denny Farrell, House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Jim Clyburn, Congressman Charles Rangel, and Puerto Rican Senator, Roberto Prats join more than two doz More...
While there have been some minor complaints about beach block streets, we have to tip our hats to the Department of Sanitation for the way Rockaway streets were cleaned of snow after fourteen inches fell on the peninsula two weeks ago. Joey O More...
State Senator Malcolm Smith, Congressman Gregory Meeks, Assemblyman William Scarborough and Councilman Leroy Comrie will host an informational session discussing the opportunities for women and minority-owned businesses in the proposed construction o More...
A Far Rockaway man was found guilty last week of murdering a female employee at a local Chinese restaurant during a robbery in 2003, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced. More...
The National Park Service announced today that Gateway National Recreation Area will present a program on the history of harbor defense in the Rockaways entitled the More...
20 Years Ago... Each year during the month of February, Temple Beth-El of Rockaway Park conducts its annual Law Sabbath in conjunction with the reading from the Torah dealing with the beginnings of Jewish Jurisprudence. More...
Contributing Editor The Ocean Bay Community Development Corporation celebrated its official coming-out at a party at the Beach Club on January 27. More...
Middle School 53 in Far Rockaway cut the ribbon on its state-of-the-art Science Laboratory last week. The new lab, which will be shared by the school More...
Contributing Editor New York City shivered through the single digit temperatures of mid-January and blizzard conditions during the weekend of January 22. More...
