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rockaways
What's at the core of winning and losing– and how you could tip your odds of success. Co-authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman discuss their new book Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing.
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Rockaways Without the A Train
Evan Simko-Bednarski, transit reporter at the New York Daily News, talks about the planned shutdown of subway service to the Rockaways for repairs, alternative travel options, plus other transit news.
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July 19, 2024: Evening Roundup
Some hospitals in New York and New Jersey are delaying medical care because of the ongoing global tech outage. In other news, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries isn't pushing Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, at least publicly. Meanwhile, the MTA says the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel will be...
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July 12, 2024 : Evening Roundup
Dozens of weed business owners attended a hearing this week as a judge considers whether to pause the crackdown on illegal weed shops in New York City. Plus, WNYC’s Michael Hill talks with New York City Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers about funding for a new long-awaited medical trauma…
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The Dangers of Rockaway's Closure Plan
Jake Offenhartz, reporter at Gothamist, and Janet Fash, Rockaway Beach lifeguard, talk about the potential dangers in the upcoming temporary closure of Rockaway beach this summer for construction. "Rockaway lifeguards sound alarm on deadly potential of city's beach closure plan" (Gothamist, 5/19/22)
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Protecting Piping Plovers
Piping Plovers are tiny endangered shorebirds who spend part of the spring and summer right here in the Rockaways. Chris Allieri, founder of the NYC Plover Project, talks about the work of the volunteers to protect the birds as they begin nesting on the beach -- and how to be a volunteer this...
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Rockaway Business Owners And Beachgoers Are Planning For A Post-COVID Boom
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and with the anticipation of barbeques and beaches and finally getting to see those friends and family in what feels like forever, there’s also a sense of cautious optimism among business owners who rely on seasonal income and are looking...
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New Justice Center Brings Community Court to Rockaways
For those arrested in the Rockaways, going through the justice system has always involved a long haul. The trip from Far Rockaway to the Queens criminal courthouse in Kew Gardens could take almost an hour and a half by bus and train even before extra logistical hurdles of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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Kusama Goes to the Beach
This summer, a former military base in the Rockaways is home to a site-specific installation from one of the biggest names in the art world. Yayoi Kusama’s “Narcissus Garden” made up of 1,500 stainless steel, mirrored spheres, a foot in diameter, are spread across the floor of a dilapidated...
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Sandy Sent This Die-Hard Rockaway Resident Far Inland
A month after Sandy, the cold of winter was setting in along the Rockaways and many people still didn't have heat. The streets were piled with storm debris. And the only shops open along Beach 116th Street were bodegas, hardware stores, and one lone hair salon called Beauty and Spa. That was…
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Bike Share Start Up Scraps Plans for Rockaways Pilot
A San Francisco-based company called Spin was planning to deploy 150 bikes along the boardwalk in the Rockaways on Monday. But after the city sent them a cease-and-desist letter last Friday, the company called it off. What the letter didn't include was the fact that the city has a "revenue...
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Is Public Housing Prepared for the Next Sandy?
When Sandy hit four years ago, it exposed how susceptible public housing in the city was to coastal storms. More than 200 buildings were damaged and 60,000 residents were affected in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. The developments suffered prolonged power outages and destroyed boilers. Residents...
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Final Section of Rockaway Boardwalk Opens for July 4th Weekend
The final section of Rockaway Beach's boardwalk will be open for the July 4th weekend, marking the first time since Sandy that the entire 5.5 mile stretch is open to the public. Construction workers were putting some finishing touches on the final section, between Beach 117th Street and Beach…
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The Rockaway Peninsula Isn't as Old as You Think
Think of things that are about 400 years old: the Île Saint-Louis in Paris (created in 1614); the King James Bible (finished in 1611); Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (painted 1517); Harvard College (established 1636). Add to that list, one other: the Rockaway Peninsula in southeastern Queens. A…
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New York City Hit by Worst Flooding Since Sandy
Unexpected flooding hit the Rockaways and other low-lying coastal areas on Monday, and parts of the city are under a coastal flood advisory though Tuesday night. The extent of the inundation was a surprise even to scientists who study the weather. But unusually high tides will become more common…
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Three Years After Sandy, a Peninsula Scattered with Broken Toilets and Creeping Mold
Cecil Lloyd-Bei lives in the Arverne section of the Rockaways in a two-story home that hasn’t had running water in the bathroom since Sandy struck. “It’s like I'm living in a third world country," Lloyd-Bei, 55, said last week. "I have to literally fill buckets up in the kitchen and lug 'em up…
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Breezy Point Won't Have to Go Public to Get Dunes
Some residents of Breezy Point, a beach community at the outermost tip of Rockaway Peninsula, once feared that in order to qualify for federal money to help protect itself against future storms like Sandy, it would have to open up its private beaches to the public. That was the suggestion laid…
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Sandy Minute-by-Minute: Commuting by Sea at 6:30 AM
Life changed for thousands in our region almost a year ago when Sandy blew in. For Raul Romero, a resident of Rockaway Beach, that change is most evident every morning when he boards the Sea-Streak Ferry for his morning commute. Romero, 61, drove to work before Sandy, but the storm destroyed his...
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Sandy Minute-by-Minute: At 4 PM, Signs that a School is Back
One year ago, Sandy took its toll on thousands of New Yorkers -- and dozens of New York City school buildings. Scholars' Academy in Rockaway Beach has been slowly rebuilding after the storm flooded the building's first floor. The school required extensive repairs and needed replacements for...
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Recovery in The Rockaways A Year After Sandy
It was a year ago this week that Super Storm Sandy hit the beaches of New York and New Jersey. In just a few hours heavy winds, rising waters, and heavy rain produced a region that was forever changed. For New Yorkers, it was no longer about which borough you were from, it was now about your...
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Wrestling, Job-Like, With Meaning After Sandy
A hundred Sandy survivors gathered at The West End Temple in The Rockaways on Sunday to hear about, and from, a Biblical character who famously faced calamity. Four actors read a portion of the Book of Job in a flood-damaged sanctuary still undergoing repairs. Actor Eric Bogosian played Job, who…
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Sandy Minute-by-Minute: At 7 AM, Living Without a Boardwalk
Life changed for thousands in our region almost a year ago when Sandy blew in. For John Cori, a resident of Rockaway Beach, that change is most evident when he steps out his front door every morning and heads towards a boardwalk that has yet to be re-built. Cori said the boardwalk is especially...
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International Relief Charity Opens First U.S. Clinic in Rockaways
The relief group Doctors of the World, which operates in war torn nations like Syria, Mali and Somalia is opening its first U.S. clinic, in the Rockaways. The organization provided aid immediately following Sandy and decided to set up a brick and mortar medical clinic in Rockaway Beach, Queens....
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Catching the Wave: Black Surfing Scene Takes Off in the Rockaways
Brian James, better known as BJ, is lounging in a beach chair at Beach 90th Street in Far Rockaway his feet firmly planted in the sand soaking in the sun on a recent weekend. James, who calls himself the “Nautical Negro,” is taking a break from the waves. "Surfers, for the most part, don’t care...
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Army Corps Envisioned Hurricane Walls for NYC 50 Years Ago
A hurricane rolls up the Atlantic Coast and causes widespread death and destruction. Congress then appropriates money to investigate ways to protect the coast. People talk about the need to build levees, sea walls and hurricane gates. Sound familiar? It started in 1954, when a series of damaging...
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City to Get $1.77B in Sandy Aid
The federal government has approved New York City’s plan to spend the first $1.77 billion in federal aid for Sandy recovery, after New Jersey and New York got their plans accepted last month. Of the funds, $648 million will be put aside for programs to rebuild homes and make them more...
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Would-Be Homebuyers Inspect Repaired Basement, Mimosas in Hand
After a cataclysmic storm, each home that goes on the market is a test: Do people really want to live in a neighborhood vulnerable to storms? Knowing the dangers, will a buyer give the seller their asking price? The home that’s on sale on Beach 145th Street is testing the high end of that market....
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Show Goes on at Theatre Program in Rockaways After Sandy
One of the casualties from Sandy was a wardrobe of costumes and props from the drama program at the Scholars’ Academy in Rockaway Beach, Queens collected over the past seven years. The combined middle school and high school was one of the last in the city to re-open after Sandy. And now the drama...
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Wall Of Steel Rising Between A Train and Jamaica Bay
It's official: New York is Holland now. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is building a wall to keep out the sea along a two-mile stretch of the A line on its way to the Rockaways. The wall is made of thick steel and is rising seven feet above the tracks on the island of Broad Channel, in...
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Councilman Calls On Verizon To Fix Phone Lines
Almost five months after Sandy, there's still no dial tone for hundreds of people living in the Rockaways. The city councilman representing the area is warning the phone outage is a dangerous situation that must be fixed quickly. More than four thousand people live in the Ocean Bay Apartments…
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With the A Train Gone, Traveling to the Rockaways Becomes Much Harder
Before Sandy, every A train trip between the Rockaway peninsula and the rest of New York City began and ended with a crossing of Jamaica Bay. The train moved along a piece of land so thin that, from inside the train, it appears to skim atop the water. But for months, that 3.6 mile railroad bridge...
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Parks Department Proposals for Beach Roil Rockaway Residents
Beach season is three months away and residents of the Rockaways have been eagerly anticipating news from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation on whether the beaches, badly damaged by Sandy, will be ready for the summer. Thursday night at Beach Channel High School, they got their...
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What's at the core of winning and losing– and how you could tip your odds of success. Co-authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman discuss their new book Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing.
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