Going Coastal

A lot of beach and not a lot of lifeguards is becoming a big concern for residents in Far Rockaway, Queens. (more…)

Ever since the city opened a section of Rockaway Beach in 2005, near Beach 90th Street as the city’s first official surfing beach, the waves have become more crowded. (more…)

Bronx $400 million

Manhattan $354 million

Brooklyn $273 million

Queens $198 million

Staten Island $119 million

Total $1.344 billion

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Hampered by overdevelopment, some crime, overcrowding, a dilapidated beachfront home for the elderly, and traditionally poor stretches of retail, residents of Rockaway Beach in Queens hope a massive, 208-block, five-neighborhood rezoning plan will maintain charm and inspire a retail surge. (more…)

Last week, New York City Comptroller William Thompson rejected a heavily debated contract that would transform the Ridgewood Reservoir into a sports field. (more…)

A Queens dad trying to beat the heat at Rockaway Beach was arrested and hauled off in handcuffs - while his family and friends looked on - for wading ankle-deep, into the water. (more…)

The campaign to preserve the wildness of Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens–to stop the city from building athletic fields and a public park–continued today at a hearing before the City Council’s Committee on Parks and Recreation. (more…)

JUDITH KLEIN came for the food and stayed for the kitchen. A blogger by moonlight under the name Foodista, Ms. Klein was born in Slovakia and says that living in the culturally diverse Ditmars-Steinway area — near the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden — makes her feel “very at home.” (more…)

Jamaica Bay is located within the only national park in New York City, a place where herring gulls pirouette overhead, Canada geese sail in naval formation in quiet coves and harbor seals frolic on the shoreline. (more…)

After trying to have a good time in the water at Queen’s Rockaway Beach Friday, Josey Miranda and her friends gave up and settled for hanging out on the sand. (more…)

The Rockaway Peninsula’s tortured development history enters its latest chapter, with ill-fated spec buildings disintegrating next to successful new housing development, and a rezoning belatedly attempting to instill order. (more…)

Community Board 7 takes pride in the fact that it is the largest of all 59 community boards in New York City. But as a result of a recent finding by the Department of City Planning, Community Board 7 and New York City are smaller than had been believed. (more…)

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