Elbow Bend: Every bar in Rockaway, 2015
Last year we chronicled the bar scene in Rockaway with the 24 Bars of Rockaway map. This year, with the return of stalwarts such as Kennedy’s, a newcomer in the Riis Park Beach Bazaar, as well as the...
View ArticleThe Community House: Rockaway’s stunning new gastropub
With the opening of the Community House on August 4th, the peninsula bar count is now up to 30, and the restaurant scene in Rockaway takes a serious, and elegant step up. Occupying the old Irish...
View ArticleThe Sugar Cube is being dismantled
The Sugar Cube has served its last beer, and the temporary quarters of the seasonal watering hole in Breezy Point are being dismantled. After the waters of Superstorm Sandy destroyed the original...
View ArticleShutter watch: Pebble’s and El Pasatiempo
Bad news for the local bar scene: it looks like two neighborhood establishments have been shuttered. Pebble’s Pub, in Roxbury, and El Pasatiempo, in Rockaway Park, have been closed for several weeks,...
View ArticleGrand opening: Rockaway Beach Golf Club
Welcome Rockaway Beach Golf Club to the list of new businesses opening this year. The area’s first indoor golf club is owned by local firefighters Christian Stathis and Patrick Hayden, and Steve...
View ArticleRiis Park and Rockaway Beach 2016 summer concessions guide
Rockaway’s beach concessions have become a major attraction for visitors over the past few years. Serving up tasty food and drink, as well beach gear, the concessions have covered seating areas,...
View ArticleSugar Bowl slated to reopen for MDW 2016
Contractors are scurrying to finish the interiors of the Sugar Bowl in time for a Memorial Day Weekend grand reopening. The scaffolding is starting to come down, revealing the most hotly anticipated...
View ArticleThe New Sugar Bowl
Under gloriously sunny skies, the Sugar Bowl in Breezy Point reopened in a new, resilient building. Residents welcomed the reopening by congregating on the new front deck of the bar. The historic photo...
View ArticleElbow Bend: 30 Bars of Rockaway, 2016
The annual accounting of Rockaway bars was a bit of a seesaw this year. Off the list for 2016: Pebble’s Pub and El Pasatiempo, which were both shuttered in early spring, and The BayHouse, which is...
View ArticleOff-season Sugar Bowl
The Sugar Bowl is still open on weekends through the end of December, and will host their first-ever New Year’s Eve party to ring in 2017. For more information, please contact sugarbowl718@gmail.com.
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