I checked out Coney Island the other day (photos here), and today I took a run out to one of my other favorite places in the city: The Rockaways. The devastation was just mind boggling. Riis Park took some heavy damage:
Almost every street in Belle Harbor had a couple feet of sand on it, and many homes destroyed.
There was a massive fire on Rockaway Beach Boulevard, that has been overshadowed by the tragedy at Breezy Point, several miles away on the same island:
Power's not likely to be back any time soon, this is part of a distribution network:
The boardwalk, for the most part, floated off its pilings and moved inshore:
This is a section of boardwalk a couple hundred yards inland:
Here, two sections of boardwalk floated up and crossed each other in the courtyard of one of the apartment complexes:
Rite Aid was giving out free water:
Rockaway Taco's building exterior survived:
Broad Channel took a beating too:
