Rockaway Beach becomes 'Hipster Hamptons'
Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | La Fruteria is one of the many new shops along the boardwalk in Rockaway Beach between Beach 86th Street and Beach 95th Street. (July 28, 2012)
Rockaway Beach reborn as Hipster Hamptons
"Rock Rock Rockaway Beach/We can hitch a ride/To Rockaway Beach," sang the Ramones.
The punk band's 1977 paean notwithstanding, the stretch of Queens oceanfront was in decline then, and remained so in the three decades that followed.
But in the past few summers, Rockaway Beach has rapidly emerged as a hot destination for the young and hip. Some even call it, tongue-in-cheek, the "Hipster...
