The bathhouse at Jacob Riis Park has been sitting so long it could’ve legally collected Social Security. But after 54 years of being boarded up, battered, and basically treated like an abandoned movie set on the edge of the Atlantic, the legendary “People’s Beach” landmark is finally making a comeback — courtesy of a not-so-modest … Read more
This holiday season, think beyond the staples and enter the tri-state’s slate of under-the-radar programming. Here are some holiday hits you haven’t thought of — yet. Get in the swim It’s off to Camden, NJ, we go! Bring your pint-size revelers to the Adventure Aquarium, all dressed up in holiday fin-ery, some 90 miles southwest … Read more
Uncle Sam has nothing on him. A 74-year-old retiree named Owen Loof has garnered local fame for being the “Best Dressed Man in Rockaway” with his array of festive garb. For July 4, he’s going all out with a suit that features red and white stripes on one side and white stars against a blue … Read more
Shorely they can’t be serious. Travel & Leisure released its list of the “25 Best Beaches in the USA.” Although two unlikely New York City entries made the cut, the coastal gem of Long Island — constantly in the conversation of the nation’s nicest beaches — was snubbed. Brooklyn’s Coney Island and Rockaway Beach in … Read more
Libra author, straw hat enthusiast and father of new journalism Truman Capote maintained, “New York is not a city, it’s a world.” The roughly 340 neighborhoods found within this world, this sprawling, five borough constellation, are defined as much by their physical properties and energetic feel as they are the people who inhabit them. … Read more