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The Community Center has been closed since Superstorm Sandy hit New York City in 2012. Major flooding destroyed the basketball court where kids used to shoot hoops, and shut down…

ByEmma Ferrara 0Comments

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Nov 2025

Climate and Environment Featured Government Health Land Use and Development Politics

‘Sided With Trump’: Climate Groups Slam NY Approval of Gas Pipeline Off Queens’ Coast

New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation approved permits Friday for a gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to the Rockaways. The Trump administration has been cheerleading the plan—which critics say flies…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 14Comments

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Aug 2025

Climate and Environment Featured Government Health Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Land Use and Development

With Trump’s Help, Gas Supplier Fast Tracks Rejected Application for Pipeline Off NYC Coast

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation has already rejected the permits needed to bring the pipeline to life three times, saying previously that the project would “disturb sensitive habitats” and…

ByMariana Simões 5Comments

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May 2024

Climate and Environment Government

Williams Pipeline Saga Ends, But the Fight to Phase Out Gas Continues

After three attempts to get permits for its pipeline project failed, Williams Companies Inc claims it’s walking away. But as other companies seek to expand fracked gas infrastructure in New York,…

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Apr 2024

Government Opinion Transportation

Opinion: As Congestion Pricing Approaches, QueensLink Must Move Forward

Whether in Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Forest Hills, or Rego Park, the sentiment was the same: parks are great, but transit is needed more. If there is the opportunity…

ByAndrew Lynch

ByNoelle Hunter

ByJasper von Seeburg 0Comments

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Oct 2022

ARTS and CULTURE Housing and Homelessness

The Housing Photographer Who Chronicled Sandy’s Destruction in Queens

Retired HPD photographer Larry Racioppo spent months without electricity after Hurricane Sandy rebuilding his Rockaway Park home. His photos from that time, and of his neighborhood over the decade since,…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Oct 2022

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Politics

In Wake of Rezonings, Renewed Call for More Health Facilities on Hospital-Starved Rockaway Peninsula

Residential rezonings, including one approved this summer for Edgemere, are poised to bring thousands of new apartments to the Rockaways over the next decade, but just a single hospital has…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 3Comments

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May 2019

Housing and Homelessness

Rockaway Sees Traffic and Construction Impacts Amid Progress After Rezoning

Two years after a 20-block chunk of the peninsula was rezoned, the city can point to progress. And neighbors can point to some of the inconveniences it brings.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Mar 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Video of the Rockaways Rezoning Hearing and Vote

The board voted to approve with conditions the city’s proposed rezoning of downtown Far Rockaway by a vote of 26 to 2.

ByMarc Bussanich 3Comments

At NYCHA’s Hammel Houses, Residents Wait for Sandy-Damaged Community Center to Reopen