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Breezy Point, Queens
Breezy Point is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula, between Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay on the landward side, and the Atlantic Ocean. The neighborhood is governed by Queens Community Board 14. The community is run by the Breezy Point Cooperative, in which all residents pay the maintenance, security, and community-oriented costs involved with keeping the community private. The cooperative owns the entire 500-acre (2 km2) community; residents own their homes and hold shares in the cooperative. Breezy Point and the Rockaways are less urbanized than most of the rest of New York City.
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NyackNewsAndViews
January 17, 2018
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Credit Union Times
January 9, 2018
According to court documents, Jelen will forfeit a home at Breezy Point, a New York City borough of Queens at the western end of the Rockaway peninsula. New York's Multiple Listings Service estimated that Jelen's house at 37 Jamaica Walk is valued at more than $640,000. Jelen was appointedÃÂ ...
TimesLedger
January 4, 2018
There was a call for possible rock jetties, berms, storm walls, bulkheads, sand replacement, and off-shore reefs in places such as Broad Channel, Breezy Point, and Rockaway. It seems that nothing has been built in the five years since Sandy, although I believe many houses have been raised on stilts.
Newsweek
January 4, 2018
The aftermath of Superstorm Sandy in November 2012 in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens. Getty Images. Sandy formed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea and grew into a tropical storm within six hours. It became a hurricane and made landfall in Jamaica, then hit Cuba as aÃÂ ...
TimesLedger
December 29, 2017
A vessel on NYC Ferry's Rockaway route became grounded off Breezy Point Wednesday, leaving 27 passengers stranded, leading state Sen. Joseph Addabbo ... A Queens lawmaker is calling on the city to develop a better system for rescuing passengers aboard city ferries that are stranded on waterways.
New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
December 27, 2017
BREEZY POINT, Queens — More than two dozen passengers are stuck aboard a ferry that ran aground in the area of Coney Island Channel and Jamaica Bay near Breezy Point, Queens Wednesday evening. Police and firefighters were called around 6 p.m. Wednesday to the boat, stuck between BrooklynÃÂ ...
Western Queens Gazette
December 19, 2017
The book brings readers back to a time of tent cities, the construction of the Marine Parkway bridge and the original ferry to the peninsula, but Merlis and Rosenzweig's new book, Rockaway Point and Breezy Point gives a glimpse into that forgotten past of the beginnings of Breezy Point, Rockaway PointÃÂ ...
CityLab
December 8, 2017
An existing house being elevated to comply with federal flood-insurance regulations in Toms River, New Jersey, in 2013 (Wayne Perry/AP) New houses in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York. Built after a fire swept through the neighborhood during Superstorm Sandy, they sit on elevatedÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
December 6, 2017
During 2012's Hurricane Sandy, a storm surge slammed New York City and sparked a devastating fire in Breezy Point, Queens. Flames ravaged the neighborhood, leaving over 110 homes destroyed and 20 more devastated. By the end, the region's entire texture was changed by mother nature's hand.
amNY
December 5, 2017
Gonzalez said Kristina Mirbabayeva, 35, who lives in a $3 million penthouse in Downtown Brooklyn, was the leader of the scam along with her business partner, Dr. Kevin Custis of New Jersey. NYPD surgeon Dr. Robert Vaccarino, of Breezy Point, Queens, was also listed in the indictment. The defendantsÃÂ ...
WABC-TV
December 5, 2017
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Curbed NY
November 2, 2017
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, many residents in the semi-private enclave of Breezy Point—where hundreds of homes were destroyed by fire, flooding, or some combination of the two—chose to rebuild, rather than leave the waterfront enclave. While many of the new homes being built in the QueensÃÂ ...
Curbed NY
October 26, 2017
If, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, you had to guess which storm-ravaged neighborhoods would have bounced back relatively quickly, it's unlikely that Breezy Point would have been at the top of the list. The small Queens enclave, located at the end of the Rockaway Peninsula, was one ofÃÂ ...
New York Times
May 24, 2017
In October 2012, when Hurricane Sandy struck Breezy Point, destroying about 350 houses by flooding and fire and damaging hundreds more, Jamie Hogan was living near Laguna Beach, Calif. Two weeks later, she and her husband flew east to help with the recovery. Ms. Hogan, 60, had lived in BreezyÃÂ ...
Citizens Voice
December 31, 1999
A federal judge issued a warrant for the arrest of the former CEO of the former Valor Federal Credit Union after he failed to appear for sentencing Monday on charges of stealing more than $700,000 from the institution. Sean E. Jelen's attorney, Joshua Lowther, told U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion hisÃÂ ...
Newsday
December 31, 1999
ALBANY — Scores of Breezy Point homeowners will square off against the Long Island Power Authority and National Grid in New York's highest court Tuesday over whether the power grid operators are responsible for a fire, triggered by superstorm Sandy, that destroyed their Queens homes. In sum, 180ÃÂ ...
Newsday
December 31, 1999
ALBANY — Judges on New York's top court voiced skepticism Tuesday about the Long Island Power Authority's claim that it was entitled to immunity from responsibility for a fire that destroyed scores of homes on Breezy Point in Queens amid superstorm Sandy in 2012. LIPA attorneys told the state Court ofÃÂ ...
Kings County Politics
November 17, 2017
Also playing a possible tie breaker role in the speakers race is the Council's Republican Caucus consisting of Queens Council Member Eric Ulrich (R-Belle Harbor, Breezy Point, Broad Channel, Hamilton Beach, Howard Beach, Lindenwood, Neponsit, Ozone Park, Rockaway Beach, Rockaway Park, South ...
Wave of Long Island
November 9, 2017
As Ulrich was called to the podium by Queens GOP chairwoman Joann Ariola, he refused to take the stage alone, demanding his entire team, including volunteers and Scala's primary opponent Helal Sheikh take the ... Folks in Breezy Point didn't agree, as Ulrich won (unofficially) 88 percent in that area.
Gotham Gazette
November 9, 2017
Malliotakis also received significant support in Council District 32 in Queens, represented by Eric Ulrich, a moderate who is one of the three Republicans currently in the City Council. Breezy Point, Rockaway Park, Howard Beach, and Lindenwood chose Malliotakis, while the northern part of the district, ...
QNS.com
November 9, 2017
Here's a recap of the 2017 Queens general election ... 32nd District (Belle Harbor, Breezy Point, Broad Channel, Howard Beach, Lindenwood, ...
City Limits
November 7, 2017
3, the Rockaway Point News, a free community newspaper that serves residents of heavily Republican Breezy Point, Queens, wrote a blistering ...
Curbed NY
October 30, 2017
... including neighborhoods like Sea Gate in Brooklyn and Breezy Point in Queens. Some of lower Manhattan's train stations like the Whitehall ...
QNS.com
October 30, 2017
This year, Queens voters are asked to form their next city government, ... The 32nd District covers Belle Harbor, Breezy Point, Broad Channel, ...
QNS.com
October 30, 2017
Winds in excess of 70 mph whipped a fire across Breezy Point that destroyed ... Times published in the days after Sandy slammed Queens.
CNBC
October 30, 2017
It has been five years since Superstorm Sandy slammed the Northeast Coast of the U.S., causing catastrophic destruction along the Jersey ...
CBS New York
October 28, 2017
When storm waters ravaged her Breezy Point home, Joanne ... skills from carpentry to plumbing were put to work in Queens and Staten Island.
Curbed NY
October 28, 2017
Homes on Breezy Point's Fulton Walk in 2014. The Queens enclave is one community that benefited from Build it Back. Nathan Kensinger.
Government Technology
October 27, 2017
(TNS) - As Katy Gallagher stood in the ashes of what was once her home in Breezy Point, Queens, the day after superstorm Sandy, she knew ...
Curbed NY
October 27, 2017
Hurricane Sandy five years later: Rebuilding in Breezy Point ... The small Queens enclave, located at the end of the Rockaway Peninsula, was ...
Wunderground.com (blog)
October 26, 2017
Damage is seen in a neighborhood in the Breezy Point area of Queens in New York on Oct. 30, 2012 after a fire destroyed about 80 homes ...
Metro US
September 12, 2017
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2012, it had been about six years since Erin Corcoran Daly lived in Breezy Point, Queens, but she didn't hesitate to gather supplies and drive north to help her former community handle the disaster. Now, Daly is once again back in New York, having evacuated her ...
New York Times
May 24, 2017
Ms. Hogan, 60, had lived in Breezy Point, a private community on the western end of the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, off and on throughout ...
Curbed NY
December 31, 1999
While many of the new homes being built in the Queens neighborhood skew more toward a traditional bungalow style, one homeowner took a ...
amNY
December 31, 1999
As Katy Gallagher stood in the ashes of what was once her home in Breezy Point, Queens, the day after superstorm Sandy, she knew life would ...
Phys.Org
December 31, 1999
Breezy Point in the Rockaways was one of the communities hardest hit ... Occupying the Rockaway Peninsula that juts out of Queens, NY and ...
Splash 247
September 26, 2017
An injured crewman has been safely airlifted by helicopter from a tanker off New York, according to The Associated Press. The medevac wasÃÂ ...
Queens Chronicle
September 15, 2017
... District — which stretches from Richmond Hill to Breezy Point. ... But in an interview with the Queens Chronicle last month, Scala said heÃÂ ...
QNS.com
September 14, 2017
Not a single candidate in any Queens City Council primary race secured ... 32nd District (Belle Harbor, Breezy Point, Broad Channel, HowardÃÂ ...
Metro US
September 13, 2017
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2012, it had been about six years since Erin Corcoran Daly lived in Breezy Point, Queens, but sheÃÂ ...
DNAinfo
September 7, 2017
QUEENS — Residents in dozens of Queens neighborhoods — including ... Woodhaven, Breezy Point, Belle Harbor, Broad Channel, Neponsit,ÃÂ ...
Western Queens Gazette
September 6, 2017
Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Breezy Point) celebrated the end of summer on August 28 with a visit to both the Point Breeze andÃÂ ...
Church Militant
August 30, 2017
In 2012, as Hurricane Sandy swept the Eastern Seaboard, the Queens neighborhood of Breezy Point was decimated by fire with more than 100ÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
August 30, 2017
Burnt houses are seen next to those which survived in Breezy Point, a neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens, after itÃÂ ...
NY1
August 28, 2017
One of the mayor's Democratic rivals, meanwhile, hit the Silver Gull Beach Club in Breezy Point, Queens, on Friday for some campaigning withÃÂ ...
Queens Chronicle
August 25, 2017
6 and 13, 6-7:15 p.m., Music Building room 246, Queens College, ... Nov.; 12-4 p.m., Riis Landing, State and Heinzelman Roads, Breezy Point.
QNS.com
August 25, 2017
This boat, which has a 90-percent sighting rate, will embark from Riis Landing in Breezy Point to explore the Atlantic Ocean and its marine lifeÃÂ ...
Western Queens Gazette
August 23, 2017
It's “last chance” week in the world's most diverse borough, as many summer series are holding their final events. Catch live music and outdoorÃÂ ...
Brooklyn Reporter
August 23, 2017
For decades, Breezy Point Surf Club, 1 Beach 227th Street, and ... you can't necessarily do in Brooklyn or Queens or Manhattan,” he said.
New York Times
August 18, 2017
Tom Paladino, the captain of the American Princess, a whale-watching vessel that operates out of Riis Landing in Breezy Point, Queens, saidÃÂ ...
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