One Rockaway

@NewRockaway Please warn your swimmers. Too many have drowned each year!

@NYPD100Pct and @NYCParks are finally out today enforcing no e-bikes or motorized scooters on the Rockaway boardwalk.

On Endangered Species Day, check out today’s editorial by ⁦@NycPlover⁩ founder Chris Allieri. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

Seeing as this is stoking fear over on the West End…. thecity.nyc/2023/5/11/2372…

@USPS here when you want to talk !

Here’s a good one — @USPS, all the credit card devices we use ask is to hit yes to affirm a transaction, so when will you change the language at post office machines and ask us to affirmatively verify our packages are safe, instead of saying NO they’re safe... Such wasted time

Hey, it’s been a while. We’ve been raising kids and digging the Rockaway vibe. What are the local issues you folks are tuned into these days?

In 2022, 116 endangered Piping Plovers came to NYC to try to raise their babies. There’s 8.5 million of us. A bit of help and perhaps inconvenience can help save a species. It’s not a hard choice. Join us. #protecttheplovers

@NYPD100Pct @Rockawaytimes Thanks both!

@Rockawaytimes @NewRockaway Good afternoon Rockaway Times, Street is now open. Yes, it was live wires that were down. Thank you 😊

@Rockawaytimes @NYPD100Pct what’s going on outside on the Blvd. resulting in the street being closed? We’re concerned given the recent shooting.

@CBS IS a ten-time GRAMMY winner.

Did you know Bonnie Raitt was a ten-time GRAMMY winner? Check out grammy.com for all the #GRAMMYInsights on this year's nominees... Just in the nick of time!

Calling Rockaway poets: queensbound.com

SNOW!???

Rockaway friends, any recommendations on an HVAC person that cleans dryer vents?

Vote!

Some of this thread got cut off, but it’s one approach to water safety in 2023+, given we’re investing in keeping our beaches open to all and better than ever.

Attention: the sun may be coming out briefly. That is all.

@bobhardt Thank you, @bobhardt.

A really smart thread about swimming safety in the Rockaways👇

gut*-wrenching

It’s guy-wrenching. We mourn. We need the ability to keep lifeguards on overtime on key summer days, like elsewhere.

Even on a dreary Monday, even in the rain under construction, our beaches are beautiful. A brief thread about water safety and saving lives. —>

Our community wants this. New York City needs this, so that someone’s beach day doesn’t become their last day. @NYCParks @NYCMayorsOffice @nytimes @nytimesmetro

And we urgently need more effective, emphatic, multilingual messaging on ocean safety, riptide awareness and maybe even stark reminders about how common drowning deaths are, from @NYCParks which works so hard on a mission to open our beaches to all each year.

In summer 2022, two separate drowning deaths happened on the same day, blocks apart, within minutes of one another. We need better predict dangerous riptides, especially when they align with heatwaves and even weekends, and we need to act. nbcnewyork.com/news/local/two…