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Far Rockaway Photo Essay

By City Limits.

  • Published November 25, 2016

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.'

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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.

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Marc Bussanich

EDC's Eleni Bourinaris responds to a board member's question about why the city wants to put housing in Far Rockaway.

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Andrew Wertz

Beach 24th St, Far Rockaway, NY

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GK tramrunner

The committee decided to recommend that 40 percent of the housing be market-rate and 60 percent rent-restricted.

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From the EDC's Downtown Far Rockaway Roadmap for Action.

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A drawing from the EDC's literature on the Far Rockaway plan.

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Peter Greenberg

Some residents are worried that increased residential density will strain resources on the peninsula.

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NYC EDC

A section of the EDC map of the proposed Far Rockaway development area.

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Adi Talwar

The A train shoots over the bay, connecting Rockaway Peninsula to the subway system.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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One of two closed supermarkets on the Rockaway Peninsula.

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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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One thought on “Far Rockaway Photo Essay”

  1. Bruce jacobs on March 7, 2017 at 8:28 pm said:

    I guess. Your paper is also trying to stop the coalition of the rockaways from talking. Shame no you

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