Bjoertvedt
'The community land trust model is one of the few that can touch on the homeownership needs of communities such as Southeast Queens and the Rockaways.'
Abigail Savitch-Lew
Richards, electeds, De Blasio officials and community advocates gather on the steps of City Hall to celebrate the passage of the Downtown Far Rockaway rezoning.
Marc Bussanich
EDC's Eleni Bourinaris responds to a board member's question about why the city wants to put housing in Far Rockaway.
GK tramrunner
The committee decided to recommend that 40 percent of the housing be market-rate and 60 percent rent-restricted.
Peter Greenberg
Some residents are worried that increased residential density will strain resources on the peninsula.
Adi Talwar
The A train shoots over the bay, connecting Rockaway Peninsula to the subway system.
Eileen Markey
Rockaway Beach in late September. Those large apartment buildings pre-dated the storm and make retreat difficult to contemplate. But some experts say the policy choices forced by climate change will only get harder.
In the past decade, developers have detected potential in the Rockaways. Now that it's harder to reach by ferry and more expensive to leave by car, will the peninsula's promise peter out?
Councilman Eric Ulrich decided to focus the $1 million he set aside for the participatory budget project on Broad Channel and the Rockaways, two distant neighborhoods that have been neglected in the past.
Three days after Sandy, food distribution on the Rockaways. The Assembly notes that a critical food hub at Hunts Point in the Bronx is vulnerable to storm surges, and proposes that a second distribution site be developed to spread the risks.
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I guess. Your paper is also trying to stop the coalition of the rockaways from talking. Shame no you