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City dwellers should rejoice in knowing how close they are to some of the nation’s best beaches. Anthony J. Causi Coney Island is a top beach on Travel & Leisure’s list of the “25 Best ...
Pack a playlist full of Springsteen and take NJ Transit (with a changeover at Long Branch) 111 minutes to Asbury, home of a revitalized boardwalk, classic rock at the Stone Pony, a growing foodie ...
Rockaway Beach is the only one of New York City's beaches that sees significant surf, and all 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of the beach are patrolled. In 2005, The New York Times reported that of 1,000 lifeguards hired for the city's beaches, 500 of them worked on Rockaway Beach. [ 5 ]
Orchard Beach in The Bronx. Coney Island Beach and Boardwalk, Brooklyn . Brighton Beach; Coney Island; Fort Tilden, Queens - The pristine beaches in this National Park Service-managed site never get crowds because they are not accessible by public transit and even by car, require a small hike to get to, except for visitors with a fishing license.
Subway trains from Manhattan and elevated trains from Franklin Avenue served Brighton Line stations, sharing the line to Coney Island. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, work was underway to lengthen the platforms to 615 feet (187 m) to accommodate a ten-car train of 60 feet (18 m)-long IND cars, or a nine-car train of 67 feet (20 ...
The Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street station is the western terminal station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located on Beach 116th Street near Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Rockaway Beach, Queens. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and ten daily rush-hour A trains in the peak direction.
The station was purchased by New York City on October 3, 1955, along with the rest of the Rockaway Beach Branch and Far Rockaway Branch west of Far Rockaway, after a fire on the line's crossing over Jamaica Bay in 1950. [5] Now operated by the New York City Transit Authority, it reopened as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June ...
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