by Rockaway Staff | Mar 20, 2025 | NEWS
Abundant Wildlife (but also Debris) Inundates New York’s Most Important Estuary By Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy Spring is nearly here, and with warmer temperatures Jamaica Bay will welcome new life. Plankton and algae will emerge, salt marshes will be...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 20, 2025 | NEWS
On Tuesday, March 18, the staff at PS/MS 183 on Beach 79th Street wore Respect for Paraprofessionals shirts to convey the importance for the city to support the additional $10,000 respect check for paraprofessionals. The action is part of an effort to get City Council...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 20, 2025 | NEWS
With coconuts clapping, broadswords brandishing, merry minstrels maligning, tap dancers tapping, lapins leaping and one golden Grail, Monty Python’s wildly comic musical “Spamalot” comes to the Rockaway Theatre Company’s John Gilleece Theater at Fort Tilden on Friday,...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 20, 2025 | NEWS
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s first baby of the year allegedly became victim of a horrific murder earlier this month. On March 7, EMTs responded to a 911 call at a home on Maple Road in Inwood after an infant was reported to be in cardiac arrest. Marlon...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 20, 2025 | NEWS
The question, “Are serial killers born or made?” runs rampant through local Rich Pontieri’s chilling new novella, “Hotline.” How can a single dad raising two girls be “The Bus Stop Killer?” What motivated his handsome, well liked and promising grandson to next...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 20, 2025 | NEWS
Some local brokers imply that they have special access to a magic formula. A client was promised a quick sale at TOP DOLLAR, and a guaranteed FAST co-op approval of the buyer. I warned him/her about hocus pocus. Of course, the sale didn’t happen. The co-op was rented...