Rockaway Nemo to Flag Day

This is NOT Rockaway or Queens or any other boro of New York City.  This residence is a post-hurricane structure.  The location will be identified at the end of this post.

For the previous installment in this series . . . Sandy to Nemo . . .  from four months ago, click here.

Here’s a March foto taken by Barbara from her 7th floor terrace, showing water/land edges in southern Queens.  In fotos farther down, you’ll see this reinforced building now painted greenish yellow.

Early April 2013.

Mid April.

The rest of these fotos I took today at sea level.  Note the lifeguard on duty, bundled up for morning 60-degrees beach.  In the foreground beyond the fence is one of the concrete supports for the boardwalk Sandy peeled away.  Maersk Denver, anchored on the horizon, will serve as a reference point.   When Nemo happened, this vessel was in port in Taiwan.

And now in situ are the bathrooms that Ashley send a foto of about a month ago here.   Foto looks roughly north.

Same bathrooms, looking roughly south.

Beachside view of the bathrooms and yellow structure housing life guard offices/concessions-to-be . . . looking northeast.

Click here for more info on the artwork created from portions of Sandy-splintered boardwalk.

Looking southwest.

Where once a mosaic covered cetacean I dubbed “rockawhale” resided,

construction trailers now stand.  A geodesic dome marks the intersection of Shore Parkway and Cross Bay Parkway.

A closer look showed it to be part of another artistic response to Sandy’s devastation.  I wonder what will happen after June 30.

I took the top foto in this post in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, where the Make It Right project is attempting to do just that.  I hope we make it right too.