The Parks Department ordered the Big Apple’s beaches on the Rockaway peninsula closed Tuesday afternoon following two more shark sightings, officials have confirmed. The sightings have shut down some ...

WNYC reports that a representative from the Army Corps of Engineers said at the Community Board 14 meeting Tuesday night that the Rockaway beaches probably won’t be back to normal by start of summer.

WNYC wrote about some of the changes coming to the Rockaway beaches this summer, from the plans by the city’s Parks Department: They include a boardwalk made of reclaimed wood and walkways with broom ...

QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — Rockaway beaches were once again temporarily closed after FDNY drones spotted a shark at Beach 102nd Street Sunday afternoon. Rockaway beaches from Beach 83rd to 120th were ...

The calls came within 20 minutes of one another on Friday evening: two young people, swimming separately on a popular stretch of Rockaway Beach, swept out to sea by the choppy surf. The FDNY responded ...

The new operators of a Rockaway Beach snack bar got an unwelcome surprise when they unlocked the property last week — and found rotting fish in the walls, noxious “food bombs” in the ducts and ...

NEW YORK -- Rockaway Beach reopened to swimmers on Wednesday morning, more than a day after a woman was bitten by a shark. Working together, the NYPD, FDNY and Parks Department surveyed the waters by ...

Once known as “New York’s Playground,” Rockaway Beach is on track to reclaim that title — but in a new way. The Queens neighborhood that housed the former, famous Rockaways’ Playland amusement park ...

Access is restricted along a popular stretch of the beach until at least mid-July because of work to protect the shoreline from coastal flooding. A surfer at Rockaway Beach was not ...

A sea of crisp blue uniforms lined Rockaway Beach Blvd. Saturday morning as Firefighter Patrick Brady’s flag-draped coffin was carried to the church atop a Ladder Company 120 firetruck.

New York City closed area beaches due to additional shark sightings on Tuesday. In a tweet, the New York Police Department's 100th Precinct wrote that "ALL of the Rockaway beaches" were closed for ...