Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York

Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. Kaplan

Paper, 264 pages, 15 photos, 1 map
ISBN: 978-0-231-12849-0
$45.00 / £26.50

May, 2003
Cloth, 264 pages, 15 photos, 1 map
ISBN: 978-0-231-12848-3
$88.00 / £51.50

Introduction

1. The Resort in Summer and Winter

2. Race and Real Estate

3. The Trestle Burns and the Projects Begin

4. Rockaway's Welfare

5. Robert Moses and the End of a Resort

6. Storms over Title I

7. Where They Live

8. Trends of the Sixties

9. The Whitest Neighborhood in New York

10. Divergences

11. The 310 Acres

12. The Reckoning

Related Subjects

• American History
• New York City
• Urban History

Series

• Columbia History of Urban Life

About the Author

Lawrence Kaplan, who has taught British and American history at the City College of New York, spent his formative years in Rockaway. Carol P. Kaplan is a practicing social worker and an associate professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.

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