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Howard Beach, Queens

July 17th, 2008 by Joe Filippazzo

This article appeared in the 17 July issue of am New York.

For better and for worse, Howard Beach, Queens, has long been a neighborhood on the periphery and an area defined by sharp contrasts. It’s where tradition is confronted by modernism, and old and new stand side by side on the borough’s border with Brooklyn.


Houses lining Hawtree Basin in Howard Beach keep their boats parked out back. (Katya Pronin / amNewYork)

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