The crumbled Rockaway boardwalk after SandyLast Sunday was sunny and mild and for a November already in its second week heading towards winter, the kind of bonus day those who lived in the Rockaways would love go for a walk, run or ride on the boardwalk that stretched from Belle Harbor to Far RockawayBut Hurricane Sandy put a stop to that on Halloween eve as the storm surge that united the Atlantic Ocean with Jamaica Bay for the first time that anyone could remember tore asunder the entire seven mile boardwalk, moving entire sections of it inland a block or two along with sand dunes as far as Rockaway Boulevard The damage caused by the deluge and the resultant power outages still afflicting the peninsula because of an ill-prepared, overwhelmed or inept utility called LIPA (Long Island Power Authority) gave it the appearance and the reality of an instant warzone The Rockaways, traumatized by 9/11 with so many victims who never came home and a subsequent tragedy a month later when a jumbo jet fell from the sky onto Belle Harbor streets and homes after a take off from nearby Kennedy Airport, and now Hurricane Sandy, tested the resilience and the resolve of the New York Irish American community once again Read more![]()
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