16 The Courier sun • may 23, 2013 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com A train service returns to Rockaways May 30 BY CRISTABELLE TUMOLA Following Sandy, a temporary Between 2008 and 2010, a [email protected] ferry operated by Seastreak was ferry run by a different company also offered to residents traveling took commuters between the The A train will be rolling all the to Manhattan. One local politician Rockaways and Manhattan. way into the Rockaways by the wants that option to stay That route was cost $6 each end of the month. option. way, $4 more than the current More than half a year after Assemblymember Phillip ferry. It also ran less often and Sandy cut off subway service past Goldfeder is circulating a petition took longer to reach its destination. the Howard Beach-JFK Airport to continue the ferry from Beach stop, the A line will be fully 108th Street and Beach Channel Goldfeder said it was underutilized restored on May 30, the MTA Drive to Pier 11/Wall Street and and discontinued as announced last week. East 34th Street in Manhattan. a result. The assemblymember “The Rockaway Line has been “Rockaway transportation was is working to make sure the in service since 1956 and the awful at best even before Sandy,” current ferry will not suffer the recently completed work was said Goldfeder. “It’s unfortunate same fate. nearly as difficult an endeavor that it took a natural disaster to Goldfeder said the petition Photo Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit as building the railroad from get us the ferry service.” gathered 2,000 signatures in The MTA worked to restore the A line in the Rockaways, set to return the ground up,” said Tom three days. May 30, after it was significantly damaged by Sandy. Prendergast, interim executive director of the MTA. The storm damaged 1,500 feet NEIGHBORHOOD STILL REELING FROM of tracks as well as signals, power and communications wires. Two stations were also completely flooded and needed repair. WOODHAVEN BUILDING COLLAPSE The A line currently ends at the Howard Beach-JFK Airport BY LUKE TABET on Friday, April 12, crushing a minivan According to the Department of stop, where passengers can catch [email protected] parked out front and shutting down a section Buildings’ (DOB) website, the structure a bus to the Far Rockaway-Mott of the road while debris was removed. had 35 violations and a partial vacate Avenue stop. Concerned Woodhaven residents want The 78-19 Jamaica Avenue LLC owns the order before the collapse. The transit agency has also run to know what repercussions, if any, a local building, according to the Department of An impending Environmental Control a subway shuttle, dubbed the H landowner will face after his building collapsed Finance. Board hearing will determine if the owner train, since November 20. The last month, damaging the adjacent At a May 18 meeting of the Woodhaven — who could not be reached — is at fault temporary line has run between Volunteer Ambulance Corps and forcing Residents’ Block Association (WRBA), for the violations. the Beach 90th Street and Far residents to leave the Woodhaven Senior many voiced their desire to see the landlord Rockaway-Mott Avenue stations. 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