Six weeks after Hurricane Sandy, the city remains starkly divided. In much of Manhattan, it seems like nothing happened. In substantial portions of Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Queens, however, much of the damage waits to be repaired, stores wait to be reopened, and people wait to return home. This storm has made clear the vulnerability [...]
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After Sandy, the little newspaper that could
Publisher Susan Locke works on the computer in the ruined offices of The Rockaway Wave, while general manager Sandy Bernstein tries to keep the phone lines working. Never has the name of The Wave, the weekly newspaper of the Rockaways, seemed so apt. “Wave of Fire, Wall of Water,” read the headline atop The Wave on Friday. [...]
Trains on trucks for Rockaway riders
The MTA continues its post-Hurricane Sandy pre-Fare Hike freakout good will press tour today with a spectacular set of photos to complement the return of the G train. Rockaway Peninsula? Your subway shuttle cars are coming! Because of the incredible damage to the bridge over Jamaica Bay the MTA says it won’t be bringing the [...]
Best ways to spend Labor Day 2012 in Queens
With the end of the summer and the start of the school year upon us, we all want one final escape, our beach chairs, swimsuits, and sunblock in the trunk, our wheels on the road. Why not escape figuratively this Labor Day, right here in Queens? (Because you don’t actually want to spend a third [...]
Proposed Jamaica Bay pipeline prompts criticism
Proposed Gas Pipeline, Endorsed by the City, Draws Criticism – NYTimes.com – “New York City needs cleaner, cheaper energy. That’s the only thing everyone following a proposed natural gas pipeline in the Rockaways agrees upon. But the project — running pipeline from the Atlantic Ocean under the Rockaways and Jamaica Bay into southeast Brooklyn — [...]
Fort Tilden in the sunshine
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