The Parks Department ordered the Big Apple’s beaches on the Rockaway peninsula closed Tuesday afternoon following two more shark sightings, officials have confirmed. The sightings have shut down some ...

WNYC reports that a representative from the Army Corps of Engineers said at the Community Board 14 meeting Tuesday night that the Rockaway beaches probably won’t be back to normal by start of summer.

Officials gathered near the surf Thursday to highlight the coastal restoration program, while concerned residents complained that another tropical storm would return the beaches — along with their ...

Sand-starved sections of Rockaway Beach, battered by erosion and Hurricane Irene, could be replenished later this year, according to the city Parks Department. The Bloomberg administration made a last ...

QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — Rockaway beaches were once again temporarily closed after FDNY drones spotted a shark at Beach 102nd Street Sunday afternoon. Rockaway beaches from Beach 83rd to 120th were ...

A half-mile stretch of Rockaway Beach will be closed this summer because there’s not enough sand there to keep the neighborhood and swimmers safe, parks officials said Monday. Swimmers and sun ...

A shark showed up at Rockaway Beach, in the borough of Queens, on Monday — just two days before swimming is set to resume. New York City’s eight public beaches have been closed to swimming since March ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Residents of Rockaway Beach descended on City Hall in Lower Manhattan Saturday, demanding that their beaches be rebuilt right now. As WCBS 880's Jim Smith reported, residents ...

Access is restricted along a popular stretch of the beach until at least mid-July because of work to protect the shoreline from coastal flooding. A surfer at Rockaway Beach was not ...

New York City closed area beaches due to additional shark sightings on Tuesday. In a tweet, the New York Police Department's 100th Precinct wrote that "ALL of the Rockaway beaches" were closed for ...