A family who lost nearly everything they owned when Hurricane Katrina ravaged their town and destroyed their trailer-home is fighting to get back on their feet in Rockaway, The Wave has learned. More...
Locals and family members gathered on Sunday night at sundown for a touching memorial flag raising at the soon-to-be-completed Tribute Park at the northern end of Beach 116 Street. The ceremony included the raising of the American Flag on the site and the playing of taps for those who died in the te... More...
An Arverne man helped a lost young boy find his parents last Tuesday when a school bus mistakenly dropped him off at Ocean Village, blocks from the day care center to which he was supposed to be taken. More...
Local firefighters raised the American Flag to half-staff at the new Tribute Park at sundown on Sunday, September 11, to honor those who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center four years earlier. While the park will not be officially open for another month, approximately 100 local po... More...
The month of September is well under way: children are back at their books and many of the organizations have held their first meeting or they are planned and pending. After the wilting heat of August, the more moderate weather we are enjoying is invigorating. More...
When the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) was created by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, it began to develop plans for hurricane evacuations in the city’s low-lying areas such as Rockaway. To a certain extent, like today’s FEMA, those plans, which abrogated the plans drawn up years earlier by the NYPD More...
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