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    CHRISTMAS COKE

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2023 12 comments

    I was meandering in Rockaway Park in December 2016 and, when outside Boardwalk Bagel and Delicatessen, found what appeared to be a pair of vintage ads. One showed a Coke…

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    R-40 SUBWAY CAR, Rockaway Park

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2021 8 comments

    Scouting a Forgotten Tour in Rockaway Park in June 2012, I found a pair of R-40 cars in the subway yard, #4393 and what was likely 4392. Introduced on March…

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    PLAYLAND REMAINS

    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2020 31 comments

    Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach…

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    ROCKAWAY WAR MEMORIALS

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2019 10 comments

    Two war veterans’ monuments, erected in 1927 and 1989, face each other across Rockaway Beach Boulevard between Beach 94th and 95th Streets on the peninsula. One of a number of…

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    ROCKAWAY FREEWAY, Queens

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2018 21 comments

    I remember it pretty clearly. It was in October, 1975 and it was the first time I had ever ridden my bicycle across Jamaica Bay on the Marine Parkway, since…

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    ROCKAWAY FREEWAY, Rockaway Park

    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2017 9 comments

    The term “freeway” is commonly used in Southern California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area to designate an expressway without tolls. In New York City, there’s one and only one…

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    SHORE FRONT PARKWAY, Rockaway Park

    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2017 4 comments

    Shore Front Parkway, running from Beach 109th to Beach 73rd Streets in Rockaway Park and Hammels, is a seeming “parkway to nowhere”as it allows people coming in from Cross Bay Bridge…

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