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The Wave is the longest-lived and most widely circulated newspaper in the Rockaway Peninsula, New York City Borough of Queens. The weekly newspaper, currently under Editor In Chief Mark C. Healey, is well known to Rockaway residents for coverage of community events and local politics.
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A pair of Long Island homeowners are going big for Christmas -- installing a 42-foot inflatable Santa Claus that's attracted hundreds of onlookers. It’s holiday inflation everyone can get behind.
Emil Robert Lucev (September 27, 1933 – June 7, 2018) was an American journalist and historian of Far Rockaway.His work includes study of the early amusement parks created by LaMarcus Adna Thompson and George C. Tilyou, the restoration and history of the Cornell Cemetery, and other features of The Rockaways, and his newspaper articles in The Wave of Long Island.
The center span is 540 feet long, [28] weighs 3,600 tons, [25] and is located 55 feet (17 m) above water level in the bridge's "closed" position. When the Marine Parkway Bridge is "open", the center span can be raised to a height of 140 feet (43 m) to allow vessels to pass beneath the roadway. [ 23 ]
There are two tracks and an island platform. The tracks end at bumper blocks at the west ( railroad south ) end of the platform. [ 15 ] The station is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and limited A trains during rush hours in the peak direction (toward Manhattan in the morning and toward the Rockaways in the afternoon).
The station was originally opened by the Long Island Rail Road in May 1928 as Wavecrest Station. [5] It was closed and relocated 800 feet (240 m) east of the former location in August 1940 as part of a grade elevation project. The elevated station was opened on April 10, 1942.. [6]
As a Long Island Rail Road station it served as one of two junctions between the Far Rockaway and Rockaway Beach Branches. The other junction was at Hammels Station, although it was originally a junction for the Far Rockaway Branch and the Ocean Electric Railway. Hammels is now located where Hammels Wye is.