by Rockaway Staff | Aug 22, 2024 | NEWS
AUGUST 22 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States president to ride in an automobile. 2004 – A version of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream was stolen in Norway. Another version had been stolen in 1994. AUGUST 23 Jim Moriarty was born....
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 22, 2024 | NEWS
A series of crime incidents rocked Beach 109th Street last week. Beginning Thursday, August 15, teenagers were found involved in a home burglary, an attempted break in at Coastal Market and an assault on a neighbor, leaving residents wondering, what’s next? As...
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 22, 2024 | NEWS
Hear ye! Hear Ye! Alma, do better! On the evening of Tuesday, August 20, residents of the Surfside Buildings between Beach 105th and Beach 108th on Shore Front Parkway, including the housing association, SHAFT, gathered with neighbors, elected officials and Surfside...
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 22, 2024 | NEWS
This Sunday, August 25—end your beach day with a fun day at Rockaway Beach Autism Families (RBAF) Fourth Annual Back-To-School Carnival at St. Camillus Church parking lot. From a bounce house, water dunk tank, carnival games with prizes galore, popcorn, cotton candy...
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 22, 2024 | NEWS
Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato has once again partnered with the MTA to bring their mobile van to the community. The van will be at the First Congregational Church, located at 320 Beach 94th Street, on Thursday, August 29 from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. During that time,...
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 22, 2024 | NEWS
Well, we had built it. But would they come? Ten years ago, early Sunday afternoon, June 29, 2014, all of us who worked so hard planning and launching this exhibition “Rockaway!” stood in a quiet Fort Tilden, thinking, “Now what?” “Rockaway!” was always more than...
