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Told us this week, he talked to us about it. he said folks in the rockaways have not always believed that government cared about them. but councilman richardson told us this. at the end of the day, because of the storm, there is light, there is hope that we can change some things. however, that plays out. whatever choices the rockaways are able to make, they have got their train again. it is running, again, full service, as of noon today. but for the workers who should, frankly, go celebrate all night, and then get cranking on the rest of the safety upgrades after that, and for the lifeguard s...

Hardest repair work imaginable, six straight months with workers going seven days a week have brought the a-train back. and now you have to meet this kid. this is rory. he is 5 years old. and rory loves trains! he loves trains so much, he can give fred eaglesmith a run for his money. today, with the big announcement, rory and his mom rushed to the rockaways to catch the last h-train ever. rockaway, here we come, right? and with the last h-train gone, they brought in a vintage train today for the ceremonial first restored a-train trip across. and, of course, all the city dignitaries piled in. b...

Best new thing in the world. ready? of the 8 million people jammed into new york city, 150,000 of them, give or take, live here on that peninsula that is circled in red there. the peninsula at the city's far southern edge. that peninsula is called the rockaways, an 11-mile long atlantic ocean beach peninsula that is part of new york city. and since peninsulas by definition jut out into water and are surrounded on water by three sides, lots of peninsulas are pretty hard to reach. and the rockaways are no exception. in the 1950s in the rockaways, they celebrated and the city finally, finally ext...

Even bigger than sandy from wrecking the tracks again. when they threw open the subway turnstiles today, people were still lining up, actually, for the replacement shuttle buses from the old h line jerry-rigged thing. some of those people told us today that they will miss the weird make shift system, because it had a side effect of giving people a three shuttle bus and train around the rockaways. but a lot of other folks seemed awfully glad their train was back. the a-train is back. and the rockaways are back. but, of course, when places come back, they are never exactly the same. like any pla...

Rockaways, enough to make that a priority, do they want to focus on housing, housing that more people can afford? city councilman donovan richards told us this week, he talked to us about it. he said folks in the rockaways have not always believed that government cared about them. but councilman richardson told us this. at the end of the day, because of the storm, there is light, there is hope that we can change some things. however, that plays out. whatever choices the rockaways are able to make, they have got their train again. it is running, again, full service, as of noon today. but for th...