Rockaways residents are sharing rebuilding tips, donating to nonprofit groups who helped them a decade ago and collecting gift cards. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Rockaway Beach (Queens, NY)”
Rockaway Beach Is Partially Closed. That’s Not Stopping These Beachgoers
By Gotham Rex on May 29, 2022
Access is restricted along a popular stretch of the beach until at least mid-July because of work to protect the shoreline from coastal flooding. Source: New York Times
For One Rockaways Couple, Lockdown Was a Creative Windfall
By Gotham Rex on January 3, 2022
While many hoped to use the enforced isolation of quarantine creatively, the couple who started Locus of Occult actually did. Source: New York Times
Meet the People Rescuing Piping Plover Birds In New York
By Gotham Rex on September 6, 2021
A group of volunteers patrols beaches where endangered Piping Plovers nest. Source: New York Times
How a Rockaways Locations Rep Spends Her Sundays
By Gotham Rex on July 30, 2021
If Claudia Bloom is not surfing or swimming in the ocean, she’s walking or biking down the boardwalk to find friends, yoga, tacos or music. Source: New York Times
Beach Bums, Unite!
By Gotham Rex on July 21, 2021
When it’s too hot to do anything else in New York City, that means it’s time to go to the beach. Source: New York Times
Is Opening a Hotel in Rockaway Beach Right Now a Good Idea?
By Gotham Rex on August 28, 2020
The area is perfect for day-trippers during a pandemic, but whether New Yorkers will pay hundreds to spend the night is another question. Source: New York Times
Are New Yorkers Wearing Face Masks? Here’s What We Found
By Gotham Rex on August 20, 2020
Over several days this summer, The New York Times tallied the face-covering status of over 7,000 people at 14 spots across the city. Source: New York Times
A Rockaway Life
By Gotham Rex on July 31, 2020
Rockaway Beach has a land’s-end bacchanalian spirit, but it also a place where you can get to know people just by being there. Source: New York Times
Beaches Are Open in N.Y.C., but Virus Worries Linger
By Gotham Rex on July 3, 2020
Shorelines are finally open for swimming, but outbreaks across the country have given officials pause about the city’s wider reopening. Source: New York Times