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City Living: Rockaways
Named after a Native American moniker for the area, Reckowacky, the Rockaway Peninsula was sold to the Dutch by the Mohegans in 1639.
Two hundred years later, the Rockaway Association purchased beachfront property and built the first of many bungalows and grand hotels that dominated the landscape for more than a century. By 1901, the Long Island Rail Road was chugging, and Playland, at the...
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