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	Rockaway, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rockaway Peninsula, also known as The Rockaways, is the name of a peninsula of Long Island, most of which is located within the borough of Queens in New York City; the peninsula's easternmost section forms the town of East Rockaway, in suburban Nassau County.
		Rockaway was initially settled by the Canarsie tribe, but sold to the Dutch by the Mohegan tribe along with most of Long Island in 1639, and to the British in 1685.
		Rockaways' Playland, a world renowned amusement park opened in 1901, and was a popular place for New York families until 1985 when insurance costs and competition from major regional parks made it impossible to continue operations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rockaway,_New_York (920 words)

	Far Rockaway, Queens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Far Rockaway is one of the four neighborhoods on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.
		Far Rockaway's character is that of an inner-city, decaying oceanfront district, in some ways having more in common with Asbury Park, New Jersey than with New York City.
		Far Rockaway is one of two New York City neighborhoods whose subway terminus is within realistic walking distance of the city limits (the Wakefield section of the Bronx is the other).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Far_Rockaway (323 words)

	Rockaway, New York -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A popular summer resort area since the (The decade from 1830 to 1839) 1830s, Rockaway — or, as it is informally known, "The Rockaways" — has become a mixture of lower, middle, and upper-class neighborhoods.
		Rockaway became a popular area for seaside hotels starting in the (The decade from 1830 to 1839) 1830s, and popularity grew with the coming of the (Click link for more info and facts about Long Island Railroad) Long Island Railroad in the (The decade from 1880 to 1889) 1880s.
		Rockaway Playland, a world renowned amusement park opened in 1901, and was a popular place for New York families until 1985 when insurance costs and competition from major regional parks made it impossible to continue operations.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rockaway,_new_york.htm (1002 words)

	Rockaway
		(Rockaway, The Playground of New York, Annual yearbook of the Rockaways, June, 1934) By 1639, thirty years after Hudson sailed into Jamaica Bay, the Mohegan tribe of the Mohawk nation sold the greater part of Long Island, including the Rockaway peninsula, to the Dutch.
		During the War of 1812, a block-house was built at the point of the Rockaway peninsula, at approximately Beach 137 street, and manned round the clock by the military of New York City.
		Broad Channel is the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay, connected to the mainland and the Rockaway peninsula by Cross Bay boulevard and its two bridges.
	www.rockawave.com /common/history/history.html (1834 words)

	Community Profile / The Rockaways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The oceanfront land that was to become one of the country's most popular playgrounds was for thousands of years a barren strip of sand, scrub growth and marshes used by the Canarsie Indians as their main shell-collecting site.
		After the English vanquished the Dutch in 1664, Rockaway's ``neck'' - today's communities of Rockaway Beach, Arverne, Edgemere and Far Rockaway - was ceded to the English Gov. Thomas Dongan, who granted it to settler John Palmer in 1685.
		The Rockaway Beach Improvement Co. foreclosed on the $1.5-million project in the fall of 1882.
	www.newsday.com /extras/lihistory/spectown/hist0012.htm (870 words)

	Sign Information
		The origins of the name Rockaway Peninsula are closely related to the language of the Delaware and Chippewa Native Americans.
		All interpretations reflect the historic and geographic traits of the peninsula.
		Parks acquired Rockaway Beach, along with Coney Island, in Brooklyn and South Beach Staten Island from the city by charter in 1938.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7719 (512 words)

	Rockaway Peninsula. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Rockaway Peninsula, in Queens borough of N.Y. city, SW L.I., SE N.Y.; 40°35'N 73°50'W. A 10-mi/16-km, narrow finger of land extending SW from about 2 mi/3.2 km S of JFK Internatl.
		NE 1/2, with residential/resort communities of Far Rockaway, Edgemere, Arverne, Neponsit, Rockaway Park, Seaside, and Belle Harbor.
		Rockaway Beach, along its SE shore, fronts on the open Atlantic Ocean.
	www.bartleby.com /69/57/R03757.html (133 words)

	PAD 747 Term Project
		The evacuation of the Rockaway Peninsula in the event of coastal storm is an enormous challenge to city planners.
		The evacuation of the Rockaway Peninsula is a serious challenge to city government and OEM.
		Its geographic position and the lack of a deep continental shelf leave the Rockaway Peninsula susceptible to catastrophic consequences in the event of a major hurricane.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/3689/paper1.html (2047 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - Far from the bustle and close to revival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The village of Far Rockaway was incorporated in 1888 and was part of the Town of Hempstead until 1898, when it became part of the Borough of Queens and New York City.
		Gordon, who is executive director of the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula, a nonprofit social service agency that serves the entire community, said there are about 1,500 Orthodox Jewish families in the West Lawrence and Bayswater sections.
		The housing boom on the peninsula is driving some to purchase vacant lots in Far Rockaway, and an elementary school is being built in the community.
	www.nydailynews.com /boroughs/v-pfriendly/story/50527p-47423c.html (804 words)

	Rockaway Inlet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rockaway Inlet is a strait connecting Jamaica Bay, wholly within New York City with the Atlantic Ocean.
		It separates the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens from the Marine Park area of Brooklyn.
		It is bridged by the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rockaway_Inlet (67 words)

	Medical Education Program at PHC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peninsula Hospital Center is a voluntary, not-for-profit, 472-bed teaching center (272 acute- and 200 extended-care beds), established in 1907.
		The Hospital Center is located in a seaside community on the Queens/Nassau border, serving residents of the immediate Rockaway Peninsula (only 45 minutes from downtown Manhattan).
		Peninsula Hospital Center renders all levels of health care service through its community-oriented Family Health Center, providing over 35,000 patient visits each year; and offering an extensive range of diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive programs, encompassing allopathic and osteopathic health care.
	www.peninsulahospital.org /medEd (308 words)

	Rockaway on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Separating Jamaica Bay from the Atlantic Ocean and isolated from the rest of New York City, the densely populated peninsula owes its growth to road and rail connections across the bay.
		The trashing of the rockaways by city and state.
		Rockaway Beach parish thrust to center of a new crisis.(The Dallas Morning News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Rockaway.asp (559 words)

	Rent-Direct.com: NY Apartment Queens apartments Far Rockaway
		Most historians believe Rockaway is a corruption of either "Reckonwacky," a name given to it by the Indians and meaning "place of our own people." According to the Forgotten New York website, it is called "far" based on its distance west from the older town of Near Rockaway (now called East Rockaway) in Nassau County.
		Far Rockaway was a popular seaside resort town in its height in the mid-1800s and had dozens of Victorian mansions (enough to rival those in Cape May, NJ) built near the water's edge, as well as casinos, parks and nightclubs.
		Rockaway Peninsula mostly consist of low rise buildings and garden complexes, converted summer cottages and single family homes.
	www.rent-direct.com /Queens_Apartments/apartments-queens-rkwy.html (500 words)

	Briarwood News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With the exception of Neponsit, which prohibits rentals, nearly 60 percent of the peninsula's 40,700 housing units shelter renters; 5,000 of those units are in public housing, the largest of which is the 1,395-unit Edgemere houses.
		The Rockaways began to be settled in the early 1900's as a summer refuge for New Yorkers escaping Manhattan.
		The subway reached the Rockaways in 1956 and in the 60's, the bungalows between Beach 32nd and Beach 73rd Streets were reazed, creating contiguous urban renewal areas totaling 442 acres.
	www.briarwoodorganization.com /news/arverneethnicdiversity.htm (1541 words)

	The Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Within minutes, the wood frame building, including a rectangular bell tower that had become a landmark on the Rockaway peninsula, was destroyed.
		This one, a modern brick building on the corner of New Haven Avenue and B. 20th Street in Far Rockaway, rose with the support of it's congregation as well as congregations across the peninsula; Jewish, Catholic and Protestant.
		The owner of two nursing homes on the peninsula, a man who was Jewish, held a benefit for the church.
	www.stmarysos.org /the_fire.htm (420 words)

	Rockaway Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This community is located in the center of the Rockaway peninsula, where auto and railroad bridges connect to the rest of Queens.
		Its name is a corruption of either "Reckonwacky," a name given it by the Indians and meaning "place of our own people," or of the area's original name, "Reckanawahaha," meaning "the place of laughing waters." The beach is 10 miles long and features a boardwalk.
		Rockaways Playland, an amusement park in the area, closed in 1987.
	www.queenschamber.org /QueensInfo/NeighborhoodPages/rockawaybeach.html (106 words)

	City Journal Summer 1999 \| Rockaway Riviera? CopacaConey? by Peter Reinharz
		Like their Brooklyn cousin, the Rockaways were at first an exclusive ocean retreat for the very wealthy.
		Rockaway Beach was a particular draw—"the most famous watering place in America," local historian William W. Munsell wrote in 1882.
		Gotham pushed thousands of poor fls and Hispanics, uprooted by the city's ongoing efforts to demolish crime- and drug-swamped slums, into the new beachfront projects, thinking that the pleasant, healthful surroundings would spur former ghetto residents to embrace bourgeois values, since their high rates of dysfunctional behavior were purportedly the product of an unwholesome environment.
	www.city-journal.org /html/9_3_rockaway.html (4153 words)

	Neighborhoods: Rockaway -- Congressman Anthony D. Weiner, New York's 9th District
		After the railroad was extended, hotels were built between 1872 and 1875, and the area was a resort by the late nineteenth century.
		The peninsula's street plan differs from that of the rest of Queens in that the numbered streets get higher from east to west.
		With improved transportation, the Rockaway Peninsula was opened to extensive development as a summer resort.
	www.house.gov /weiner/neighborhoods/hoods_rockaway.htm (185 words)

	rockaway alleys
		Train service to the Rockaways has existed since the late 1800s and was run by the Long Island Railroad until 1953, when fires destroyed the wooden causeway that supported the roadbed in Jamaica Bay.
		Far Rockaway was originally part of the town of Hempstead, but joined Queens, which remained with NYC after its three easternmost towns became a new county, Nassau, in 1898.
		Today, as far as its street layout is concerned, Far Rockaway has little in common with its gridironed brothers in the five boroughs, and more resembles Nassau County to the east and north and Staten Island with meandering streets and plenty of dead ends.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /Alleys/rockawayalleys/rockbeach.html (1105 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rockaway Beach takes another savage blow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rockaway Beach, Queens —; a small town in the big city — was home to as many as 90 firefighters and Wall Street workers lost in the hellfire of Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center.
		Seventy to 90 people from the Rockaway peninsula died in the Sept. 11 attacks, authorities said.
		Rockaway Beach has long been a part of popular culture — as a backdrop for Woody Allen's Radio Days and immortalized as Rock, Rock, Rockaway Beach by the Ramones.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/queenscrash/rockaway-usatcov.htm (1746 words)

	Power Problems Plague Peninsula Water Main Break, Gas Line Break and Power Outage StrikeRockaway By Howard Schwach
		Like some sort of Biblical plague, a series of power problems hit the Rockaway peninsula last week, causing hardships for many residents and, in one case, spurring preparations for the evacuation of Peninsula Hospital Center, Middle School 198 and Public School 105.
		Several blocks of Rockaway Beach Boulevard, however, were blocked off by the flooding and by fear that the street would collapse.
		To add to the peninsula’s problems, a faulty fuse caused a brownout at the Ocean Village complex on Beach 67 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard and to the eastern portions of the Dayton Towers complex on from Beach 73 Street to Beach 80 Street on Tuesday morning.
	www.rockawave.com /News/2003/1031/Front_Page/031.html (532 words)

	New York City - Real Estate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Across much of the Rockaway peninsula, residents can barely drive a few blocks without seeing houses undergoing complete renovations or new houses being built where old ones were knocked down.
		The Rockaway peninsula, a four-block-wide spit of land in southeastern Queens that's south of Kennedy Airport, has long been prime real estate because of its pristine beaches and access to the Atlantic Ocean.
		The $350 million project, called Arverne by the Sea, is being developed by Benjamin-Beechwood LLC (a joint venture of Benjamin Companies in Garden City and the Beechwood Organization in Jericho), chosen by the New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development in late 2001 to redevelop about 100 acres of the urban renewal area.
	www.nynewsday.com /business/realestate/ny-bzcov0702,0,66838.story (1133 words)

	Margert Community Corporation: Board of Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Far Rockaway, October 15, 2005.....This last Saturday, Margert Community Corporation held its marquee homeownership event of the year, at St. Mary Star of the Sea School, in Far Rockaway.
		The report, entitled "An Analysis of Selected 2000 Census Data for the Rockaway Peninsula, Queens County, New York," a collaborative effort of NYC Councilman James Sanders, Jr.
		Far Rockaway, March 17, 2004Margert Community Corporation, the community-based nonprofit housing agency serving the Rockaways and southeast Queens, is pleased to announce that it has once again been selected as a Local Program Administrator for the New York State RESTORE program.
	www.margert.org /press.html (2048 words)

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		About Us Rockaway Music and Arts Council has been bringing the arts to Rockaway and adjacent communities since its incorporation in 1955, making it the oldest, continuous cultural organization on the Rockaway Peninsula.
		Rockaway Music and Arts Council consists of a small group of volunteers who have contributed to its success.
		Rockaway Music and Arts Council is dedicated to promoting and supporting community appreciation of the performing, visual, and literary arts.
	www.rockawaymusicandarts.org (340 words)

	Weiner (NY09) - Press Release - "Isabel" Near Miss Reveals Major Flaws In Rockaway Evacuation Plan
		OEM called local nursing homes and hospitals to remind them to check to make sure their generators were working and that they had enough medical supplies, and provided general information to senior centers.
		Problem: Bringing rescue equipment to Rockaway during a hurricane would be logistical nightmare.
		Rockaway is home to over 100,000 residents, some of the City’s most popular beaches and cherished beach front property.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/ny09_weiner/093003isabel.html (865 words)

	JFK Airport Runway 22 Right
		The community of Rockaway Beach has the distinction of being selected by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the only community near JFK Airport to specially designated to have nighttime flights directed over it.
		Rockaway Beach is the only community near JFK Airport to have this special night time designation.
		Many believe this was done by the FAA to punish the Rockaway Beach community for their opposition to JFK Airport expansion plans and the FAA's unjust, politically-influenced and racist aircraft routing policies.
	pages.prodigy.net /rockaway/jfkrun22.htm (619 words)

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