The New Yorker on Mud Wrestling in the Rockaways

Photograph by Bryan Fraser.

Move over New York Times, now the New Yorker seems to have a beat reporter in the Rockaways. Have a look at this article by Mary Norris on mud wrestling at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club. An excerpt:

The Rockaway Beach Surf Club is on the premises of a former chop shop at Beach Eighty-seventh Street, under the El, just where the tracks curve north to the trestle bridge over Jamaica Bay. You’ll know it by the two big blue disco balls on the roof, visible from the train. Pay no attention to the block of self-storage units on the other side of the tracks. Concentrate on the fake palm tree in the neighboring yard.

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