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3. My old neighborhood.

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 01:42 PM

Nov 2012

I grew up in Far Rockaway. Technically, she is speaking from Rockaway Beach, although the whole peninsula is sometimes called "Far Rockaway" which is at the east end (up to Beach 25 Street) or "The Rockaways." The name is from an Indian tribe that were there when settlers took over.

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