Few people knew the name Sean Bell until his wedding day. Until then, the Far Rockaway resident was just another face in the crowd. That all changed, however, when the 23-year-old unarmed man was gunned down by undercover NYPD officers outside a Jamaica strip club where he was being feted by his ... More...
An Arverne man, who worked with local teens until last August, was busted by an undercover investigator at the McDonald's in Far Rockaway this week for scamming contractors out of thousands of dollars. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau identified the man as Kyle Correll, 40, of 51-23 ... More...
ABrooklyn judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by former Beach Channel High School principal Barbara Pleener, who claimed that she was fired because she is white. More...
Recently, a doctor said that in Canada where it really snows, two trucks go and clear the white stuff from the streets and fill each other with it. Then they go and dump both truckloads into the river there. The river probably doesn't overflow or they wouldn't do that! Anyway, a lot of coughing an... More...
This Saturday marks the celebration of Irish culture on the Rockaway peninsula, and the Fisheads are once again ready to host their annual postparade "Green Gala". More...
We would doubt that anybody believes that the system worked the way it was designed to work in the case of accused murderer David Tarloff, who brutally took a meat cleaver to therapist Kathryn Faughey in Manhattan earlier this month. Tarloff was arrested at St. More...
Dear Editor, I have never seen the Rockaway community in such agreement as I have regarding the proposed YMCA. The community, the Community Board and virtually every elected official from the City Council to the United States Senate has raised his or her voice to the Mayor that the YMCA as planne... More...
Aviator Sports Bits All events at Aviator Sports, latbush 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...
William F. Becker, a 45-year Rockaway resident, died February 22. Becker was born in New York City. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. He worked as a die caster with Long Island Die Casting in Inwood, New York. He was preceded in death by his companion, Amelia Cahoon. More...
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