Police from the 101 Precinct in Far Rockaway, responding to a call of "shots fired" in the vicinity of 142 Beach 27 Street early in the morning of September 5, found five men standing on the corner. When they approached, police sources say, the men fled, disposing of three high-powered street weap... More...
One of the landlubberly kitesurfers who became stranded at sea on Wednesday got down on his hands and knees and kissed the sands of Rockaway Beach, after stepping out of the NYPD helicopter that plucked him out of the ocean. The rescue unfolded at about 2:40 p.m. More...
Two changes to the proposed YMCA at Arverne By The Sea, which have become highly contentious in recent weeks, can be redesigned into the plans - if someone is able to quickly secure the funds to do it, according to a top representative from the Y. More...
This is the final installment in a series of columns in which Sean Connington, a fifth-year Rockaway lifeguard and journalism student at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, More...
It was a lovely summer, all in all. The temperatures have cooled a bit of late, leaving us with nice nights for sleeping comfortably. Of course, there has been rain as well. Really drenching, soaking, heavy, wind-driven rains. Enough rain to make using an umbrella all-but-impossible, or useless. More...
NEW YORK- For more than one hour, as the jury pool assembled on the 23rd floor inside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse last Monday afternoon, Isiah Thomas conferred with his attorneys. Observers could see the Knicks' coach break into a smile, as if he was watching his team during a lay-up d... More...
More than a dozen people rose up last Monday night to tell Community Board 14 that the Rockaways needs and deserves a larger swimming pool and an enclosed gymnasium at the planned YMCA on Beach 73 Street. More...
The Senior Center Building is closed. However, the program is ongoing on a limited basis. Our temporary office is our Catholic Charities bus, which holds 12 people and a driver, a total of 13 people. Our director, Rose Lawrence, and her social worker, Mecker Johnson, tend to senior business and pr... More...
Community Happenings Salute to Veterans "Oldies But Goodies" Barbeque sponsored by Congressman Gregory Meeks, Vets and families, St. Albans VA Campus (179-00 Linden Blvd.), 9/18, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. More...
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