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Planning is underway for a three-year project that will rebuild and upgrade nine of Rockaway's subway stations, according to representatives from MTA New York City Transit. More...
Series Of Meetings To Address Drug Use In Town

It wasn't laced heroin that killed two Broad Channel men last month, it was a lethal mix of heroin and cocaine, The Wave has learned. More...

Plainclothes police officers guard the door of the North Fork Bank branch on Seagirt Boulevard in Far Rockaway on October 11 after, police say, an armed man entered the branch and gave one of the tellers a note demanding $10,000. The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of money and the thief, w More...

Applications are being accepted for a free program that prepares people for jobs as New York City lifeguards - even though many who participated in the program last year say they became targets and didn't get a fair shot during testing. More...

Former Rockaway resident Bob Nesoff is the publisher of a New Jersey community newspaper. More...
What The Wave Said 20 Years Ago...
Murray Richardson was badly burned October 12 in a fire at 2211 Loretta Road, Far Rockaway, and removed by helicopter to the Cornell Burn Center in Manhattan. The burns covered his face, chest, back and both arms for a total of about 35 percent of his body. More...
The rain, wind and cold created a monsoon type atmosphere on a Tuesday afternoon at Fort Tilden. On that gloomy day, the Stella Maris Lady Flippers soccer team's spirit could have been as dank and dark as the skies were that day. More...
Trying To Sneak A Fastball Past Rockaway
City agencies are constantly trying to sneak a fastball past Rockaway, to do in relative secret, things that the Rockaway community would react badly to had they known it was coming. Look at the Shore Front Parkway situation. The community asked for two lights and wound up with a brand new paint sc More...
Pheffer Letter On Dayton Housing
The following letter was sent to Louis Rivera, a shareholder of the Dayton Beach Park Mitchell-Lama Co-op from New York State Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer on October 3, 2006. More...
Joseph J. Berardino State Farm Insurance Agent
Joseph J. Berardino, a resident of Stamford, Connecticut since 1999, died October 8. He was 86. More...