An 1893 hurricane submerged a populated island, Atlantis-style, that lay south of the present Rockaway shore.
Norma Mancia, a Salvadoran immigrant, lost precious documents when her Far Rockaway home flooded.
Kristin Franchock, who stayed with her husband and three children on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, N.
Jean-Marie Fougere, a parent coordinator, said he cast his vote at Far Rockaway High School for Mr. Richards.
"When I talk to people in Far Rockaway, they are just concerned with rebuilding their homes, " she said.
In Queens, the A train on the Rockaway peninsula is still not running.
You could imagine something similar at the Arthur Kill and across the Verazano Narrows or even between Sandy Hook and Rockaway.
The state only provides a modest bump in salary to cover the higher cost of living (both Powers and Thomas live on Rockaway).
In the Rockaways, at the Stop and Shop on Rockaway Boulevard, the parking lot was full and checkout lines stretched around the aisles.
McKeon said he planned on approaching leaders in Queens to see about having a dress expo there for hard-hit kids in the Rockaway beach communities.
Kevin Breslin, 54 years old in Rockaway Beach, said he bought 30 50-pound sandbags to keep water out of the basement of his beachfront home.
His two-story house in the Far Rockaway section of Queens hasn't had working heat since Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters destroyed the oil burner in the basement.
Known as the Rockaway Beach Club, the collection of stands serves up everything from Venezuelan street food to classic boardwalk fare like ice cream and lobster rolls.
Besides Far Rockaway, the district includes Laurelton, Rosedale and Springfield Gardens.
Rockaway residents stood in long lines to get food and supplies.
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When I visited the YANA community center in Rockaway Beach, I heard people discussing the fact that the website had the wrong information about what was currently needed.
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"A little snow doesn't scare me, " said Leeann Rivera, 43, stocking up at the only major grocery store still open in the Sandy-ravaged Far Rockaway section of Queens.
When we pulled up into a big parking lot near Rockaway Beach, we could see rows and rows of National Guardsmen in a shopping center parking lot.
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Dr. Alan Rabinowitz was born in New York City, grew up in Queens, in Far Rockaway, and for a while was the "Knife Man" in a neighborhood gang.
That is a challenge that could grow larger in coming weeks, said Ms. Burtis, when further deliveries require the trucks to make their way over onto the Rockaway Peninsula.
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Plate Lunch will give food away for free until the summer, when the truck will become a key player in a plan to teach Rockaway kids business and nutrition skills.
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The furniture is still wet and the curtains are black with mold in Pura Gonzalo's Far Rockaway home, where the 89-year-old Cuban immigrant says she has throat problems and feels exhausted.
"Out there" is Breezy Point, the westernmost part of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, a fish-rich stretch of water that's the unofficial separation of the Atlantic from the harbor of New York.
But that's exactly what a second-grader had inside his Batman backpack Thursday morning when he arrived at Wave Preparatory Elementary School in Far Rockaway in Queens, Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said Friday.
It produced destruction on a different scale than that seen in neighborhoods such as Breezy Point, the Rockaway Peninsula enclave where a fire ravaged dozens of homes and flooding knocked bungalows off their foundations.
Later in the day, the Administrator will visit the communities of Rockaway, Broad Channel and Breezy Point in Queens, NY, to meet with FEMA staff working on-the-ground to register disaster survivors for financial assistance.
Restoration of No. 1 trains to South Ferry would leave just a single section of the subway system out of service because of storm damage, the A train between Howard Beach and Rockaway Park.
Despite being unsatisfied with the city's response to the damage wrought by Sandy in Far Rockaway, Mr. Fougere said he was voting for Mr. Richards because he was a familiar face around the community.
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