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Rockaway Beach shark attack victim loses '20 pounds of flesh' after bite

The woman bitten by a shark while swimming alone at Rockaway Beach is believed to have lost  “approx🐠imately 20 pounds of flesh” in the rare attack -- believed to be...

 Rockaway Beach closed Tuesday aft🌱er first shark attack since 1953 leaves woman with g⭕ruesome leg injury

The Queens hotspot will be closed off from swimming and surfing one day afꦦter a woman was seriously injured by a shark.

🎃 Woman, 50, bitten by shark at Rockaway Beach, suffers gruesome leg injury in ‘extremely rare’ attack not seen since 1953

Shark sightings have become more coဣꩵmmon in recent years in Queens and on Long Island.

👍 Two men shot dead, four others in🧸jured in less than 24 hours in NYC

Two men were gunned down and two other people were injured in three separate shootings over less than 24 hours duri൩ng a bloody weekend in New York City, polﷺice said.

Surfers, hard hats make deജsperate attempt to save beached whale in Rockaways🅷

A ragtag group of surfers and construction workers tried to save a beached whale in the Rockaways Tu꧋esday morning by jumping into freezing water in a frantic but futile rescue...

Rockaway Beach’s Jacob Riis Bathhouse to get $50M makeover 𝓰

The dilapidated Art Deco jewel is getting a multimillion-dollar restoration and the💫 promise of new life as a vendor and event space.  

Motorcyclist crashes on NYC boardwꦐalk, leaves passenger to dieඣ: cops

The passenger, David Molina, 26, was ejected from the bike and hurled to the ground during the initial crash – suffering severe head trauma, authorit﷽ies said.

 More NYC s𝓀hark sightings reported at Rockaway Beach, but swimming still allowed

"We never want to close our beaches, but the safety of our swimmers is our top priority," the New York Parks Department said. "Thankfully, on Monday we were able༺ to... 𒀰

Two more sharks spotted at Rockaway Beach as 'scary' sightings, attacks surge in NY

Two sharks were spotted were spotted at Rockaway Beac🐟h on Monday morning at Beach 73rd Street, accor🐼ding to ABC 7.

🌃 Endangered birds on Rockaway beaches being watched over by NYC nonprofit

Volunteers have been braving the ♔heat this week to protect the endangered piping plovers that flock to Rockaway beaches. 

Shark sightings close Rockaway Beach for swimming as NYC heat wave continues 🍨

"Beach goers are 💖not all⛦owed in the water at this time, but the boardwalk and concessions remain open," the Parks Department tweeted at 2:14 p.m.

NYC clo꧃ses Rockaway beaches after 2 more shark sightings

The sightings have shut down some of the most accessible beaches in the five borough♚s on one of the hottest days of the summer so far.

Best of: Blue-collar NYC, Jersey beaches beat Hamptons in 'best beaches' survey

Travel and Leisure recently releas🌱ed its selection of the 25 💯best beaches in the United States. 

The summer's hottest beachside club and pool party is in Queens

The summer’s hottest new pool party is at Queens' Rockaway Hotel, a new luxury resort that op🏅ened in September blocks from the ocean in The Rockaways.

 Rockaway Beach bu💃ms burned by two-hour subway delaysﷺ

Beach bums looking to go to Rockaway Beac♊h found themselves stranded after subway service over the South Channel Bridge went dark for nearly two hours.

Dead🦋pool: Potentially dangerous lifeguard shortage hits NYC

 A staffing shortage is causing some Rockaway Beach lifeguards to protest grueling working conditions, creating a potentially dangerous situation 🌼for families, guards told The Post. 🌞

Smel✨ls fishy: New owners of Rockaway Bea♏ch snack bar claim sabotage  

The new operators of a Rockaway Beach snack bar found an unwelcome surprise when they unlocked the property last week and found it vandalized with rotting fish 🍌in the walls...

Body of missing Rockaway Beach swimmer recovered𒀰 on shores

 Authorities said Chinnel Brown of Brownsville, Brooklyn, was found on the shore near Beach 136th St. and Rockaway Beach 🐷Blvd. at 9:49 a.m.

First responders pause search for missing Rockaway swimmer 🀅

First responders have paused their search for a swimmer who went missing at Rockaway beach Friday due to bad weather, p🐼olice said. A woman in her 20s is unaccounted for...

 🎃 NYC beachgoers bummed by lack of lifeguards ꦚ— which is causing unsocial distancing 

Long stretches of surf still remain off-limits due to 📖a lack of lifeguards — making it tough to socially distance in the waters where taking a dip is allowed.