This tribute to Billie Holiday was the first of the post-Sandy Beautify Earth murals painted in the Rockaways. You can see others here.

at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club

(There's a marina next door.)

After taking this photo, I continued to the end of Beach 84th Street, which terminates at what appeared to me to be a house standing beside Jamaica Bay. It wasn't until later, when I was looking at a bird's-eye view of the area, that I realized that what I had seen was not a single house by the bay, but rather the end of a row of about 16 bungalows built on a pier that runs out into the water. These unusual houses, apparently more than a century old, were in the news back in 2008 when the state passed a law allowing the city to sell the pier to the homeowners who lived atop it. A few years later, the artist Duke Riley featured the bungalows in one of the stained-glass pieces he designed for the nearby Beach 98th Street subway station.

The long-abandoned Rockaway Courthouse. The most recent plans for this structure call for it to be turned into a medical center.

4 feet 6 inches at this location

The plaque mounted on this World Trade Center remnant reads:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BROTHER KNIGHTS
WALTER G. HYNES AND FRANKLYN J. MONAHAN
AND ALL VICTIMS OF THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TERRORISM

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
ROCKAWAY COUNCIL #2672

DEDICATED
SEPTEMBER 19, 2004

100 feet or so beyond these chain links, where the boardwalk used to stand before Hurricane Sandy washed it away, is where this picture was taken.

THE ELEVENTH OMMANDMENT

Old Glory looks a lot sharper than she did a year and a half ago. (Was this hydrant an original '76er?)