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East Rockaway

American  

noun

  1. a town in SE New York.


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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

He was a football and track star at East Rockaway High School, from which he graduated in 1946.

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2024

The groom's father is the president, and his mother is the comptroller, of Metro Construction Services in East Rockaway, N.Y.

From New York Times Aug. 25, 2019

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

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