Rockaway Memories

It's more than an hour to go from Manhattan to the last stop on the A train at Beach 116th Street, but Far Rockaway is still part of New York City.

I have been fortunate to travel to this little peninsula at the edge of Queens many times to visit my friend John whose father Dean Georges is featured is this wonderful new website RockawayMemories.com.

One of the most relaxing night's sleep I've ever had was at Dean's place on Rockaway Beach dreaming away to the lullaby of the rolling ocean. Once while standing outside Dean's house I saw the Concord heading east after leaving JFK airport nearby. It looked like science fiction.

Here's to all my own good memories of Far Rockaway- of all the riding around with John in Dean's floral delivery vans and jumping in the Ocean in January- to that song by the Ramones, to the conception of George Carlin- and the old distant view of the World Trade Center beyond Brooklyn across Jamaica bay.

RockawayMemories.com