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Article: ROCKAWAY, QUEENS : A neighborhood I know well.(neighborhood affected by terrorist attacks and an aircraft accident)(Brief Article)
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- November 23, 2001
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Our family has a love affair with a star-crossed little neighborhood at the edge of New York City. In our house, "Rockaway" is a magic word. Going to Rockaway means seeing grandma and aunts and uncles and "the cousins." A passel of kids of varying ages, the cousins love playing baseball in the front yard, romping on the beach just two blocks away, or exploring what's left of the Fort Tilden gun emplacements that overlook the Atlantic Ocean. The guns were put there to fight Nazis who many feared would come across the sea during World War II. Fortunately, the Nazis never came. Now, the neighborhood faces troubles no one ever imagined.
The television screen on the ...