Two local teenagers, a 13-year-old and a 15- year-old, have been charged as adults in connection with the murder of 18-year-old Neville Ward outside the Redfern houses earlier this month, according to a spokesperson for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. More...
Criminal charges were filed against six locals last week, and 27 others were charged with drug-related offenses following a six-month undercover operation at what Queens District Attorney Richard Brown is terming "an open air drug market" in and around the Hammel Houses, a public housing complex c... More...
Police sources told The Wave on Wednesday that the body found under the subway station on Beach 44 Street on Monday, January 14, was Radgas Binea, a 30-year-old Rockaway resident. Those sources said that the possibility of a homicide had been ruled out in Binea's death and that his death had offi... More...
New York State Senate Democratic Leader Malcolm A. Smith, who represents Rockaway in that body, recently held a town hall meeting at St. John's Baptist Church in Far Rockaway, on youth and family services. More...
It is not always obvious from the temperature that it is winter. When the winter winds whistle through the tree branches and house eaves, it is quite a sound. For some reason the sound seems to make the temperature feel colder. Anyway, it's good weather to pull out an extra blanket and curl up in ... More...
Finding alternatives to violence for youth on the peninsula is something that Team Deuce and Sorrentino's take pride in accomplishing. They have been hosting basketball and doubledutch tournaments for a few years. The 2007 Holiday Tournament was held at the NYC Parks Department's Sorrentino Cente... More...
The drug sweep at the Hammel Houses public housing complex last week is just the latest of what has become an annual event this time of the year. In February of 2006, police officers busted 33 people in the area around the Dix-McBride Houses and the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway. More...
The following letter was written to the general manager of the New York City Housing Authority, Doug Apple. Dear Editor, I write to you in reference to the poorly lit, dull lighting in the courtyard of the Redfern Houses located in Far Rockaway. More...
Aviator Sports Bits All events at Aviator Sports, Flatbush Ave., Bklyn, just north of Marine Parkway Bridge. Seniors in Shape, Mind and Body Fitness for Those 55+. 1/14 through 4/5. Monday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday mornings, 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Total mind and body... More...
Maurice Agrippa, a longtime Rockaway resident, died January 11. He was 66. Agrippa was born in Georgetown, Guyana on October 20, 1941. He worked with the New York City Board of Education. He taught Spanish in several high schools and ESL at Lehman College. More...
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