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Kevin, great article on Far Rockaway, but there is a new player in the Rockaways when it comes to newspapers and it is The Rockaway Times http://rockawaytimes.com/ The Rockaway Times was launched June 26, 2014. Kevin Boyle, after a long distinguished career as an editor, columnist, and reporter decided to pursue this entrepreneurial endeavor because Rockaway, Queens, New York was calling out for a new, fresh voice.

Many thanks for this informative article! I've long wondered about that station and really appreciate the history you've provided. I'd like to raise two points. First, is that the structural elements you've called "pillars" would more accurately be called arches. Second, is to ask you to explain more about how Northern Boulevard east of what became the Nassau line was called North Hempstead Turnpike. Since that eastern region was part of Queens back then, what was the pre-split significance of the point where the name changed? Why did the change happen at that location before there was a border? Also, if it was Northern that became North Hempstead Turnpike, then how is it that the street I live on, now stuck with the clumsy monicker of Booth Memorial Avenue, was called North Hempstead Turnpike when my family moved here in the late 50s?

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The LIC ferry would be an excellent transfer point if MTA utilized the Long Island City LIRR station more often. I suggested to someone that finding some way to add light rail or some sort of transit along the LIRR between Jamaica and LIC would be a great asset to Central Queens neighborhoods. It would connect Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Glendale, Ridgewood and Maspeth, the latter three of which are badly underserved by public transit, directly to the ferry. The station is literally across the street, a lot closer than the 7 train is.