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Due to track work, A train service between Jay Street-Borough Hall and Utica Avenue in Brooklyn will be replaced by free shuttle bus service during several weekends. The changes in train service may affect the commute of many Rockaway residents. More ... Extend Student MetroCard Limits City Council Member Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., a member of the Council's Transportation Committee, has called on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York City Department of Education to provide additional rides on Student MetroCards or Supplemental Student MetroCards, More ... Plant Tree Seedlings At Gateway 4/14 Get your hands dirty on the second Saturday of each month at Floyd Bennett Field. Friends of Gateway (FoG) is seeking volunteers to help plant hundreds of tree seedlings in four gallon pots for delivery to community groups. "Floyd Bennett Field is Brooklyn's national park and the large... More ...
Live Nation presents Art Garfunkel at the North Fork Theatre at Westbury on Thursday, April 12 at 8 p.m. His pure, high tenor has helped him launch a number of top 40 hits in the mid 70's including "All I Know," "I Shall Sing," "Second Avenue," "Since I Don't Have You" and "I Only Hav... More ... Durham Completes Food Service Training Army Pvt. Edward L. Durham has graduated from the Food Service Specialist Advanced Individual Training course at Fort Lee in Petersburg, Virginia. More ...
By Brian Magoolaghan Local organizations are collecting care package items for U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan on three more Wednesdays in April and May. "We are calling on our community members to once again help to support our troops who are fighting for us so far from home," says a j... More ...
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum stopped by The Wave office in Rockaway Beach for her first-ever visit on Thursday, April 5. Gotbaum had a look around and sat down for an informal chat with Wave Managing Editor Howard Schwach. Gotbaum and Schwach's 45-minute conversation touched on several key issues i... More ... Corrections Officer Busted For 'Public Alarm' By Howard Schwach An apparently intoxicated city Corrections Officer was busted on April 1 after officers noticed him "acting loud and boisterous" and blocking traffic at a Far Rockaway intersection, police say. Sources say that Department of Corrections Officer Kenneth Shepherd, 54, of Rosedale, was s... More ... Huntley: 9/11 Workers' Compensation Enroll By August 14 To Preserve Claim Rights State Senator Shirley L. Huntley is urging workers and volunteers in the rescue, recovery, or cleanup efforts at the World Trade Center on or after September 11, 2001 to register with the New York State Workers' Compensation Board by Tuesday, August 14. More ... Literary Festival Brings Readers, Writers Together Do you love books and movies and all things literary, and have some free time next month? What do you do? The Rockaway Music and Arts Council has the answer. RMAC will host its first annual Literary Arts Festival Sunday, April 22 at Ft. Tilden, Gateway National Recreation Area. More ... Local Honored For kidsmART Afterschool Work Lifelong Rockaway resident, community activist and children's advocate Marina Callaghan will be honored on April 10 by the Partnership for Afterschool Education (PASE) at their annual PASEsetter Awards ceremony. New York City's top education officials will join PASE and more than 500 su... More ...
Pheffer Installs Roy Reuther Tenants Board Assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer was chosen as the Installation Officer for the Tenant Association's executive board at a recent Roy Reuther Tenants League meeting. The Tenant Association will be the advocate of Roy Reuther tenants during the transition from a strictly senior citizen complex... More ...
Cynthia Buchanan was recently promoted to the position of Supervisor of the Health Information Management Services in the medical records department of Peninsula Hospital Center. Buchanan has only been at the Hospital Center for the past 16 months, but she brought with her 15 years of experie... More ...
Review By Robert Snyder There is a sad aspect to what is the mindlessly funny road-trip-buddy movie, "Wild Hogs." It's that all four charismatic movie-star leads (plus the villain and a non-credited cameo) are playing clichéd caricatures of roles that once led them to fame and fortune. If their careers ... More ... Public Schools In Line For Achievement Prize The Broad Foundation today announced that for the third consecutive year, New York City will be among the finalists for the 2007 Broad Prize for Urban Education, an annual $1 million prize given to urban school districts that have made the greatest increases in student achievement. The Prize... More ... Queens Veterans Information Day Vietnam Veterans of America, Queens Chapter #32 Inc. is hosting its 16th annual Veterans Information Day (VID) on Saturday, May 19 at Lost Battalion Hall, 93-29 Queens Boulevard in Rego Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. More ...
Bring In Electronics, Clothes For Recycling Just in time for spring cleaning, the Department of Sanitation, with the assistance of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, Goodwill Industries and Con Edison, is sponsoring "Spring 2007 Electronics Recycling and Clothing Donation" events throughout the five boroughs. More ... United States Postal Carriers To Look Out For Seniors Citizens Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has announced New York City's new Carrier Alert Program, which trains United States Postal Service letter carriers to identify signs of distress among seniors and people with disabilities and quickly connect them with social services through the City's Department fo... More ... Senior Citizen Driving Tips It is estimated that by the year 2020 one in five drivers will be 65 years or older. Many experts agree that knowing the warning signs of driving impairments, adjusting to physical and mental changes, and developing transportation alternatives are critical to the safety of older drivers, thei... More ...
Silver Sneakers, a health care exercise group located at 8400 Shore Front Parkway, celebrated its tenth anniversary in early March. Instructor Anna Wiley is seated on the far right with some members of the exercise class, which meets three times a week. More ... Sanders Holds Immigration Initiative Conference Councilmember James Sanders Jr. held a press conference in front of his Laurelton office on the morning of April 5 to announce the launch of his immigration initiative. Sanders has allocated $150,000 to the Federation of African Caribbean and American Organization to set up immigration counse... More ... Weiner Sets Vision For Middle Class Representative Anthony Weiner has outlined his vision for easing the burden on New York City's middle class and those struggling to make it at a Drum Major Institute panel discussion in Manhattan on Monday. Weiner discussed his proposal to provide middle class families with a 10% tax cut and ... More ...
Simultaneous Work On BCD, RBB Ties Up Traffic Driving either east or west on the Rockaway peninsula, particularly in the west end, got more complicated on Wednesday afternoon when the city's Department of Design and Construction (DDC) abruptly cut off Rockaway Beach Boulevard between Beach 108 Street and Beach 116 Street for milling of the road... More ... Youth Summer Employment Applications Online The Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) has released applications for the 2007 New York City Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). The applications can be found on the DYCD website at nyc.gov/dycd. This marks the first year that young people can apply online.... More ...
The staff at Arverne By The Sea held a luncheon Monday afternoon in honor of Police Officer Louis Brust, a Community Affairs officer from the 100 Precinct who will work his last day for the NYPD on Friday, April 6 and officially retire this summer. Guests, including ABTS project manager Gerry Romski... More ...
The nine crossings of MTA Bridges and Tunnels handled 302 million trips in 2006, a 0.5% increase over 2005 and the second highest volume in its 70 year operating history, reflecting a strong regional economy. The highest traffic was in 2004 at 302.9 trips. More ...
A three-car motor vehicle accident put one local woman in the hospital and blocked off traffic on a major east-west road on Friday afternoon. The accident, right in front of a newly-constructed home at Beach 131 Street and Newport Avenue, the site of the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 th... More ...
As reported in last week's Wave, actress Alfre Woodard visited Beach Channel High School at a breakfast and morning seminar to share her experiences and answer the questions of students from the BCHS Renaissance Small Learning Community, Channel More ...
By Miriam Rosenberg Contributing Editor With so many of those who live in the Rockaways without medical insurance, Peninsula Hospital Center has begun a new program performing free Angio- Screening to all residents throughout the peninsula. "It screens for corroded arteries… to check blood flow," said Jim Martinez, Administrative... More ...
A local photographer was out for a jog on Sunday, April 1 when he saw this unusual object hovering over the Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge that connects Rockaway with the Brooklyn mainland. More ...
By Miriam Rosenberg Contributing Editor With the click of a computer mouse, Peninsula Hospital Center's doctors and nurses will soon be able to access patient records and test results. The advancement is being made possible by a $500,000 allocation by Councilman James Sanders Jr., which was presented to the hospital on March 29. More ...
Mayeesa L. Mitchell, an Arverne resident and seventh grader, recently took part in the sixth annual Underground Railroad History Conference in Albany. Mitchell's presentation, which was reported in the February 9, 2007 edition of The Wave, was a big success. More ...
Far Rockaway High School hosted their first annual tea party on Saturday, March 24, with female students, parents and staff invited to the weekend event to honor Women's History month. More ... RDRC Hosts First Of Two College Tours The first of two Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corporation sponsored College Tours, also known as the RDRC Beacon Program Annual College Tour, departed from Goldie Maple Academy/PS 333 in Arverne on Monday, April 2. More ...
By Miriam Rosenberg Contributing Editor The building that once housed the Strand Theatre, where longtime residents spent hours of their youth, and later time with their families, is now a warehouse for the Brunswick Paper Company. Located at 714 Beach 20 Street in Far Rockaway, the venerable old theatre had been sitting empty for decades... More ... |
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