Wednesday 16 April 2014

Recording Rockaway Oral Histories

One extra session added this coming Friday April 18, from 12-2PM, at The Wave, B90th Street: Last chance to get your Rockaway story recorded! As part of the “Dear Rockaway” project, our team has been setting up open interview times over the past months inviting local residents to share their impressions of the peninsula, memories, happy and sad,…

Saturday 29 March 2014

“The Wave” Letters

Every week, our Rockaway team storyteller, Carolyn Louth, addresses the locals with her “Dear Rockaway” letter, which provides at once transparency, updates and news about the progress of our project in the Rockaway, in her inimitable, light, friendly yet convincing tone. The team has opted to leverage the strategic media channel of the Wave to…

Saturday 11 January 2014

TeamRock Visioning the Rockaways

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MEETING at B90th Street, DECEMBER 4, 2013 All Photos: Carolyn Louth and Daniel Latorre Knights of Columbus Rockaway Council kindly provided a meeting space for TeamRock to host its first community roundtable, and we made our way to their hall’s second floor on a wintry, Wednesday afternoon in December. Once gathered in…

Tuesday 5 November 2013

DESIGN/RELIEF: OCTOBER PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Laetitia Wolff Program Director (212) 710-3156 email hidden; JavaScript is required   AIGA/NY Announces Final Selection of Design/Relief TeamsDesign/Relief teams begin collaborations in Red Hook, the Rockaways and South Street Seaport on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy as part of AIGA/NY’s efforts to inspire communities through graphic design For immediate release: New York,…

Saturday 2 November 2013

Rockaway Farm Site Visit

TeamRock Visits Edgemere Farm, November 02, 2013 Food entrepreneur David Selig invited us to visit his new venture, an urban farm being developed in partnership with educator and beer-family heir Matt Sheehan on Beach 46th Street. Seeking “hyperlocal vertical integration,” Selig gives examples of how Edgemere Farm could mitigate food deserts and cultivate community: sublease plots…

Rockaway Doctors of the World Clinic Visit

Doctors of the World [DoW], a relief group usually found in countries devastated by war, has opened its first US clinic—in Rockaway! What, really!?   Harry Chang, Executive Director of DoW, explained that they believe health care is a fundamental right and that physicians should advocate for social justice in addition to being practitioners. In…

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Rockaway Sandy Anniversary Tour

GETTING ACQUAINTED, OCTOBER 23, 2013 in the Rockaways The Rockaways, Action Center, 57th Sreet&Beach Channel – Photo Daniel Latorre Flat gray sky. Flat gray water. Carpool stops briefly to look out over Broad Channel where a small, family-run marina used to be; the docks have not been rebuilt. Onto the Rockaways where we camp at…