NEW YORK-- A military-style object washed up on Rockaway Beach on Friday. A Parks Department employee spotted the 3-foot-long cylinder on the sand near Beach 84th Street in Queens just before 9:30 ...

The city Parks Department banned swimming on Rockaway Beach in Queens Tuesday as officials investigate a shark attack that landed a 65-year-old woman in the hospital with a gruesome leg wound.

About 300 people are asked to leave the waters at Rockaway Beach every day, the parks department said. Arrests, however, are rare. Only one other arrest was made this year at the Rockaways ...