NEW YORK — One morning — a few weeks after the “bomb cyclone” in January had thrown record-low temperatures, high winds and thick ocean waves onto Rockaway Beach in Queens — the conditions remained ...

It’s a multi-faceted event for a multi-purposed cause. On Saturday, the eighth annual Rockstock and Barrels Festival will fill the Rockaway peninsula with about 11 hours of live music, gnarly surfing ...

We caught wind of the short film, Beach 87th St./Surfing After Sandy from the NYDN. Filmed by Jesse and Lukas Huffman in documentary style, it features the surfing community and how they were affected ...

Two years and some $12 million of beach replenishment to the tune of 360,000 cubic yards of beach replenishment on the western edge of Rockaway Beach has, sadly, done little to remediate erosion and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Reinhardt and Mike Kololyan are Rockaway Beach-born-and-bred surfers who, in Reinhardt’s words, “are very much yin and yang ...

During this year’s Climate Week NYC, Rockaway Beach’s ever-shifting sand dunes got a fresh plug of some 1,600 native plants across seven blocks of secondary dunes thanks to more than 40 dedicated ...

Get ’em while it’s hot. August’s not only here, but half over — its swift march toward September whittling down the number of days left to enjoy NYC’s great outdoors in (fingers crossed!) equally ...

NEW YORK -- Queens resident Lou Harris is on a mission to make the sport of surfing more inclusive. Founded in 2016, his program Black Surfing Rockaway helps young people of all backgrounds conquer ...

Joe Falcone looked past the snow-covered sand to the surf and saw a fleet of humans bobbing up and down on boards. Dozens of them. His blood pumped hot with frustration. “There were at least 50 guys ...