Rockaway Post

14/09/2026

A fire broke out in a detached garage behind a home near Motts Basin at the eastern end of Jamaica Bay in Far Rockaway on Sunday afternoon.

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12/09/2026

ICYMI: STARS Community Center in Howard Beach celebrates 30 years, announces expanded fall and winter programming lineup

Reach for the STARS is expanding its fall and winter programming with activities for children, families, adults and seniors, continuing a year-long

10/09/2026

Police at the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach are looking for a suspect who allegedly robbed a drug store at gunpoint in broad daylight on Saturday, Aug. 22, and remains at large.

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09/09/2026

Police from the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach are looking for four unidentified suspects who are wanted in connection with a gang assault that left a man battered with serious slash wounds after the attack during the evening of Sunday, Aug. 30.

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08/09/2026

Reach for the STARS is expanding its fall and winter programming with activities for children, families, adults and seniors, continuing a year-long celebration marking 30 years of service to Howard Beach and the surrounding Queens community. The programs will be hosted at Striving to Achieve and Reach Success (STARS) Community Center at 8 Coleman Square.

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01/09/2026

Police from the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach are looking for a gunman who allegedly fired a handgun inside an apartment building after he and another woman assaulted a resident on the night of Friday, Aug. 28.

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01/09/2026

Astoria resident John Surico, longtime public space expert, writer and organizer, was named the new executive director of Friends of the QueensWay, a grassroots effort to transform the long-abandoned portion of the LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch into a 3.5-mile linear park in Central Queens.

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20/08/2026

Council Member Joann Ariola has introduced legislation that would issue emergency notifications to New Yorkers when the city’s EMS system is experiencing severe delays.

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20/08/2026

Episcopal Health Services (EHS) in Far Rockaway celebrated the 2025-2026 Clinical Pastoral Education graduates on Friday, Aug. 14.

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19/08/2026

Council Member Joann Ariola has welcomed the City Council’s vote to approve legislation creating a new Office of Insurance Accountability, which she said would help set standards in the industry and prevent companies from having “free rein to charge whatever they want.”

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