Seventeen Months after Sandy, Sandy victims struggling to stay afloat say city lends no hand
Leslie Mahoney and her daughter, Christine Schneider, can recall decades of memories on Beach 131st Street in Belle Harbor: The Fourth of July parties, the…
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South Queens, Rockaway Residents to Senate: Pass Flood Insurance Bill
Facing massive spikes in flood insurance premiums that many said would drive people from their homes and neighborhoods, South Queens and Rockaway residents this week…
Celebrating the Luck of the Irish in Rockaway
The streets of Rockaway were flooded with the sounds of bagpipes and many a reveler decked out in green last Saturday, when thousands of people…
Concerns Flood Insurance Would Skyrocket Under House Bill
While the U.S. House of Representatives was expected to hold a vote on a flood insurance bill Thursday, it was pushed off, and the House’s…
Build It Back Lambasted as Deeply Flawed
Sixteen months after Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City, some Queens residents still have not been able to return to their homes devastated in…
House votes to delay some flood insurance premium increases
After months of Queens residents pleading with federal officials to send some financial relief their way after it looked as if their insurance premium rates…
After flood insurance problems persist, some in South Queens, Rockaway say they feel they would have fared better without it
The fact that many homeowners in Queens are still rebuilding and recovering from Sandy, more than a year later, is little surprise given the storm’s…
As sinkholes and flooding plague area, Queens leaders once again call on city to launch comprehensive study
The re-emergence of a sinkhole and a water main break on Beach 84th Street near Beach Channel Drive in Rockaway Park – which rendered residents…
Spikes in flood insurance premiums could be delayed with Senate vote expected this month
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), announced this week that relief could be headed the way of South Queens…
Woodhaven Speaks Up Against Railway Plans
The rules were clear as Woodhaven residents filed into their block association’s public forum Monday evening. “We want to hear from the Woodhaven residents first,”…
The Little North Pole Lights Up The Night – Charity event celebrates 18 years
For nearly 20 years the Little North Pole has been lighting up the streets of Neponsit and the faces of children of all ages. This…
Rockaway Man Pleads Guilty in Sex Assault – Rapes 62-year-old woman
A Rockaway Beach man plead guilty to first-degree rape in connection with his attack on a 62-year-old woman in Rockaway last year. The defendant identified…
Scholars Student Casts Shadow on Beloved Academy – Lawsuit against school, administrators and parents will follow
In stories released last week by CBS News and the The New York Post, a Howard Beach teen and her mother have introduced serious allegations…
In Rockaway, remembering Flight 587 victims
Family members and friends of the 265 people who died in the crash of Flight 587 in Belle Harbor on Nov. 12, 2001 gathered Tuesday…
Hurricane Sandy Documentary to Premiere in Rockaway – “John Cori Warned You” weaves together the story of rebuilding a community
Hours after the worst of Hurricane Sandy receded from Rockaway, leaving in its wake a peninsula nearly unrecognizable to so many of its denizens who…