I lived in Arverne Rockaways, 342 Beach 56st. St. from 1951 to 1957 with my parents and 2 sisters, in the NYCHA projects. Kind of depressing life in winter, but summers were great, my mother taking us to the beach, only a half mile down the street. And my folks taking us to Rockaways Playland top, we liked that place a lot, great rides and arcades. When we moved to New Jersey, we still went back there till it closed. The Rockaways will always be a great place, hopefully some of the neighborhoods will improve, a better quality of life for the people there.

1967: best summer of my life, hanging out on Beach 35th Street with a boy named Barry. I think of him to this day.

Love this clip. I close my eyes and I feel like I'm back in that era . Great memories.

Beautiful Marty. Nice memories of the good ole days 🙂 And great song by James Taylor.

Thank you! This was definitely a labor of love. Grew up on 136th street, third house from the beach.

This is awesome, coming from someone who use to work in redeveloping the Rockaways

You just got me with Our Town! Thanks, Marty for taking the time to do this. I lived at Rockaway Point and never met you, but I knew these places.

Such great memories brought back, Thank you

So sad that our town is now their hood.

What a lovely tribute to a place I will always deem magical. If you don't look too closely, the next-to-last photo could almost be of Sal Mineo and Norma Jeane, but the final shot of the seagull shows s/he's weary of that attribution. Moreso, it's a perfect closing, the bird's heavy lids falling upon a bygone era. Thank you.

Dang..... things really have changed here so much

Wow,thanks I just seen my husband as a little boy on the parade in far rockaway..thanks for share.

I rode that rollercoaster at Playland with a friend 102 times in a row!

It's wonderful, Marty. Thank you for the acknowledgement.

nothing stays the same...

I saw that you were credited in Skip Weinstock's video, "There Used To Be a Boardwalk Here" for providing the video footage of Beach 35th St. I wanted to thank you for it since it captured my dad's famous knish store at 0:36 of Skip's video. I grew up on the Boardwalk. My dad, Jerry of Jerry's Knishes, passed away on April 23, 2018. Beach 35th Street was a the center of my family's world for so many years. Mom met dad at the bungalows in the early 50s, I was born in Far Rockaway and lived in Wavecrest, mom worked at the front counter at Jerry's Knishes while in the back dad made the knishes (from his mother's recipe). A world disappeared.

Thank you. That was marvelously done.

Great footage. Perfect choice of song.

The snowy image at 1:07 made me cry.

Such great memories. Such a great video

I use to visit my Aunt Katie in the 50s i had the best time!!

i never seen rides and the stores on the beach. but i remeber that been burn down. anyway since u upload that video. it kinda bring s back memories

oh yea this song i remember this i think its in the movie cars right? yea man what a memery nice and good old song😭🤧😢😥

Brings back lots of memories . Thanks for the post . FRHS graduate 1954

The Southern Tip of Queens, an Almost Forgotten Section of the Borough that is Part of NYC.

Shared this to my G+ Farrockaway

Thank you, Sandy Jonas Rosengarten, class 64

Nice job editing Marty.

Far Rockaway used to be so nice, now it looks like a dump

Welp interesting seeing this. I grew up in the post housing project Era. I'm 20. What I grew up with was shame for my hometown and the housing project I lived in. Whyd yall allow it to get so fucked up in the first place. Uptown remained somewhat decent but downtown just got wrecked by abandon, drugs and criminality. Wonder if yall got paid off.

Cosmos haircuts for 60cents. Baldy sours. .

Ruined

What is the name of this song and person singing it?