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2 unusual facts about Rockaway


Pettit Marine Paint

The company was established in 1861, its headquarters are located in Rockaway, New Jersey.

Rockaway, New Jersey

Clifford Meth (born 1961), author, often refers to places in Rockaway in his stories.


Breezy Point

Breezy Point, Queens, New York, a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula

Brooklyn Army Terminal

New York Water Taxi's Rockaway/Sandy Hook beach service formerly linked the 58th Street Pier at Brooklyn Army Terminal to Pier 11/Wall Street, the East 34th Street Ferry Landing, the Sandy Hook Bay Marina, and/or Riis Landing during the rush hour and on summer weekends.

Camp Marcella

State of the art smoke and fire detectors, with emergency lighting, have been installed in each cabin and are wired into a central system which will report any activity directly to the nearby Rockaway Fire Department.

Christ Church USA

This led to the purchase of a 107-acre campus in Rockaway, New Jersey which was renovated and opened for worship in 2009; complimenting the metropolitan cathedral in Montclair.

E. Bertram Mott

He attended public schools in Rockaway Township, before going on to Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1896.

Eytan Rockaway

After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Rockaway co-founded A Matter of Substance with Ohad Maiman – a cross platform media/entertainment entity spanning the fields of Music, Film and Television.

JFK Expressway

The JFK Expressway comes to an interchange with NY 878 (Nassau Expressway) with a northbound exit to the eastbound direction, which provides access to Rockaway Boulevard, and a northbound exit and entrance in both directions to the westbound direction (unsigned I-878), which also provides access to I-678 and the westbound Belt Parkway.

Max Dauphin

The exhibition successfully premiered on 25 October 2013 at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club, then showed on Lower East Side at ConArtist Gallery on 27 October.

MTA Bridges and Tunnels

Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge (Queens—Broad Channel and the Rockaway Peninsula)

Playland

Rockaways' Playland, a defunct amusement park formerly located at Rockaway Beach, Queens in New York City

Rockaway Beach, Queens

His idea was to connect the Marine Parkway Bridge with the Atlantic Beach Bridge, which connected the Rockaway Peninsula to Nassau County.

Rockaway Branch

Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road (former Rockaway Division)

Shelley Mayfield

He served as the head professional at Rockaway Hunting Club in Cedarhurst, New York from 1950 to 1952.

Tara Ison

She is the author of three novels: Rockaway (Soft Skull Press, 2013), The List (Scribner, 2007), and A Child out of Alcatraz (Faber & Faber, 1997), which was a Finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Whippany

Whippany River, a tributary of the Rockaway River in Morris County

White Meadow Lake, New Jersey

High School students from White Meadow Lake attend Morris Hills High School in Rockaway Borough.


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