So the weather has finally warmed up and you want to go to a beach that isn’t the pathetic slice of sand by Smorgasburg on the Williamsburg waterfront. Luckily there are several ways to get out to the Rockaways from the Burg. Take the train ya dummy As much as the L train sucks it’s […]
Great white shark caught close to Rockaway Beach
Further proof that you are never safe in the water. From DNA A group of friends out fishing about a mile off Rockaway Beach wound up reeling in a baby great white shark and spotted another 10 footer in the water. The little Jaws was tagged and released by the fishermen. Steve Fernandez, 29, and […]
Rockabus Gets Competition With New York City Beach Bus
Via Another bus company has rolled into the game of shuttling public urbanites to popular Queens beaches, offering sunscreen, beach toys and even yoga to customers. The New York City Beach Bus began running buses to Rockaway on July 4, with nearly identical pick-up and drop-off locations as the popular Rockabus. Riders can catch the […]
Coney Island may have raw sewage, but Ft Tilden and the Rockaways still totally rule.
Did you hear? The Brooklyn Paper and L Magazine are reporting that Brooklyn’s beaches are full of raw sewage. That’s right, as you can see below, the National Resources Defense Council is reporting that between 4% and 9% of the times water from Coney Island beaches was sampled, the levels of bacteria exceeded the state […]