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  1. buzzkills
    NYPD Targets Beach Boozers in RockawaysDrink at your own risk. 
    By Adam K. Raymond
  2. stand clear of the closing doors
    The A Train Is Scheduled to Return to the Rockaways at the End of the MonthWith only plywood and sandbags to protect from flooding.
    By Adam Martin
  3. hurricane sandy
    Williamsburg’s Post-Sandy Rockaway Commute Won’t SufferThe Rockabus returns.
    By Adam Martin
  4. ink-stained wretches
    The Wave Is Back, But Not Its Archives118 years of history lost to Sandy.
    By Adam Martin
  5. crimes and misdemeanors
    The Rockaways Have Seen a 1,020 Percent Increase in Burglaries Since SandyCompared with this time last year.
    By Adam Martin
  6. stand clear of the closing doors
    The Rockaways Won’t See a Subway Train Anytime SoonA Train service is reportedly out until mid-2013.
    By Adam Martin
  7. hurricane sandy
    The Radio Days House Stands Tall in RockawayThank goodness for small miracles.
    By Adam Martin
  8. boardwalk empire
    Trashed Rockaway Boardwalk Boards Are Surprisingly Valuable$250,000 a block, it turns out.
    By Adam Martin
  9. election day
    Voting After Sandy Was a Frustrating MessLong lines, generator-powered tents, and voting by flashlight.
    By Margaret Hartmann, Evan Kleinman, and Jack Riccobono
  10. real estate
    The Hip-fication of the Rockaways is Really AcceleratingWill there be a boutique hotel out there?
    By Noreen Malone
  11. hipsters
    Do You Ever Wish Williamsburg Was Farther Away, Dirtier, and More Bathing-Suit Friendly?Try the Rockaways!
    By Noreen Malone
  12. it just happened
    Clothesless Man Jumps From Rockaway Railroad Trestle Into Frigid Jamaica BayPolice are looking for him now.
    By Daniel Maurer
  13. neighborhood news
    The Old Man of the RockawaysDon’t say he didn’t warn you not to swim at night.
    By Chris Rovzar
  14. neighborhood watch
    In the Rockaways, Safe Swimming Is a Luxury, Not a RightNasty razor teeth in Chelsea, bank-on-biker discrimination in Windsor Terrace, lifeguard inequality in the Rockaways … and other bad tidings to make you angry and anxious in today’s bitter boroughs report.
  15. neighborhood watch
    Joshua Kushner: Jared 2.0?Jared Kushner’s developer bro rocks the East Village shul crowd, the waterfalls installation is killing the trees at River Café, barges are rotting in Jamaica Bay, and scruffle venue Studio B in Greenpoint is shuttered. In today’s hood roundup!
  16. neighborhood watch
    Red Hook Residents Already Groaning Over ‘Real World’ InvasionThe disingenuous denizens of Red Hook, the doomed views of the West 15th Street co-op dwellers, and the junk food–craving office gals of Long Island City, all wrapped up into our daily boroughs report like the contents of a vegan burrito!
  17. neighborhood watch
    The Golden Rule, Graffiti-StyleEast Harlem’s incoming big-box mall, Rockaway’s unexpected turn, Gramercy’s strange tenements within a condo, and even more, in today’s boroughs report.
  18. neighborhood watch
    Hipster Influx Already Affecting Bushwick Community BoardRoosevelt Island may not get its ferry so soon, the Rockaways may get a $19 mil library … and Union Square Park–goers will still get free hugs! Even more gets in our daily boroughs report.
  19. neighborhood watch
    The ‘Post’ and ‘Daily News’ Have Contrary Takes on the Future of the Atlantic YardsJennifer Connelly ditches the Slope, Travolta hits Dumbo, and Warhol’s former porn house in the East Village. Those are all the celeb items in today’s boroughs report, we promise!
  20. neighborhood watch
    Art Deco Icon to Be DemolishedBrooklyn Heights: They’ll tear down the landmarked 1936 Purchase Building — a classic, WPA-style structure — as part of the construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park, which may begin next month. [NYDN via Gowanus Lounge] Fort Greene: All the shabby-chic vendors of choice are lining up for the Brooklyn Flea Market, coming here Sundays starting in April. [Brownstoner] Governors Island: Plans released today for the isle’s redo into a pomo eco-asis reveal that multiethnic children will frolic while seabirds fly overhead at dangerously low altitudes. [Queens Crap]
  21. photo op
    Surfin’ NYC Sure, if you want to be a snob, you could insist on Waikiki Beach on Oahu or Kirra Point on Australia’s Gold Coast. But you can’t get to either of those with a MetroCard — and today the city’s Parks Department opened New York’s second surfing-only beach in the Rockaways. Until 2005, a musty law banned surfing anywhere within the five boroughs. But that year a stretch of seashore at Beach 90th Street was opened to surfers and closed to everyone else, and, well, it was gnarly, dude. Today, after the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation cleaned the area and a Parks commish Adrian Benepe led a small ceremony, the strip of sand at Beach 67th Street was also turned over to the boarders. It’s just an A-train ride away — and, on that note, we think we’ll call it a week. Catch you Monday.