Far Rockaway, NY

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• LIRR adds trains for Good Friday afternoon

  Street, then all stops to Great Neck . Far Rockaway Branch 3:48 p.m. express to Locust Manor, then all stops to Far Rockaway.More information on LIRR service is at mta.info or by monitoring LIRR service alerts via email or text message. Customers also can   Read more »

• Cops: Teen charged in burglary at Woodmere temple

  16-year-old from Far Rockaway , Queens, was arrested Tuesday and charged with burglarizing a temple in Woodmere last August, police said.Daniel Weiss, of 1176 Brunswick Ave., was charged with third-degree burglary after an investigation by Nassau County police   Read more »

• Cop: SUV lead to MS-13 murder cases

  gang murders on Long Island and in Queens began with an illegally parked sport utility vehicle in a lot at the beach in Far Rockaway , Queens, according to court testimony Tuesday by an NYPD officer.Officer Makarios Salkey said in Federal District Court in   Read more »

• LIRR adds trains, restores services cut in 2010

  run as late as 2 a.m. to and from Atlantic Terminal, seven days a week.The LIRR also restored two peak trains each on the Far Rockaway and Long Beach lines, one evening peak train to Port Jefferson from Hunterspoint Avenue, and one evening peak train to Montauk   Read more »

• Gang member testimony links MS-13 to 2 killings

  was hacked and stabbed to death on a Far Rockaway beach also in March 2010, according to court papers.Calderon said he is cooperating with the government because he faces a mandatory life sentence unless he gets leniency for his testimony.   Read more »

Around the web

• Queens-Long Island Medical Group Reopens Far Rockaway Office Damaged by Hurricane Sandy

  their community. "It is our privilege to be back and ready to see patients. Our medical group has been part of Far Rockaway for many years. We are happy to serve them again," said William Gillespie , M.D., EmblemHealth Chief Medical Officer who also serves   from PR Newswire Read more »

• MTA Cutting “A” Shuttle Bus

  buses out there. It’s going to be crazy because there are not enough buses in the morning... You need more, so you can’t make any cuts.” According to The Gothamist, an online news outlet, MTA officials insist that these schedule changes are actually meant   from Wave of Long Island Read more »

• Letters to the Editor

  still overcrowded and unreliable. The Rockaway Boulevard bus stop going to Rockaway during rush hour is pushing and shoving. Many people are afraid at this location. People are angry and frustrated. I think people will start to assault each other. Mr. Norman   from The Queens Gazette Read more »

• 'Sandy' removed from list of hurricane names

  November 10 among piles of debris where a large section of the iconic boardwalk was washed away in the heavily damaged Rockaways. Mac Baker, right, poses with her niece Nytaisha Baker next to pots of water she heats on the floor with small flames for a bit   from CNN Read more »

• NY man waives extradition in Maine murder

  say that 19 year old Anthony Pratt, of Far Rockaway, NY, shot and killed Margarita Fisenko Scott in November 2012. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A New York man has agreed to be brought to Maine to face a murder charge in the shooting death of a woman he was dating.   from NBC WCSH6 Portland, Maine Read more »