East Rockaway

American  

noun

1. a town in SE New York.

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Example Sentences

In the late 1950s, a Lehman Brothers broker named Arthur L. Carter moved into an apartment in East Rockaway, New York, to raise his budding family.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

“Our social life, when we lived in East Rockaway, was around our kids in the sandbox,” said Weill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Marie Anita Severin was born Aug. 21, 1929, in East Rockaway, N.Y., and grew up on Long Island and in Brooklyn.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2018

The teenagers, a 16-year-old boy from Wantagh, N.Y., and a 16-year-old girl from East Rockaway, and the pilot were not identified by the police.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2018

At 56, Ms. Glickman, of East Rockaway, N.Y., said she and her husband are “thrilled” about their daughter’s 8-month-old, Lilah, who lives less than an hour away, in Manhattan.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2016