Riding the Wave with Mark Healey

A schoolteacher’s beef with the Department of Education has inspired the Irish-American community of New York City to call for St. Patrick’s Day to be treated with the respect that a centuries-old holiday deserves. The Wave has learned that Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder not only agrees with the sentiment, he tells The Wave he’ll push his colleagues in the State Assembly to make it a law.

On Feb. 26, Goldfeder will join The Wave's managing Editor Mark Healey on "Riding The Wave" to talk about the St. Patrick's Day bill and other issues concernong Rockaway

Amy Peterson, the Director of the City’s Housing Recovery Office and the head of the Build It Back program talks about the agency's efforts to deliver on its promises to get the people of Rockaway, Broad Channel and Breezy Point back home.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has released his office's audit of the Build It Back program. On this week's Riding The Wave with Mark Healey, he'll discuss the audit and other issues Rockaway cares about the most.  Thanks again to Rockaway Roasters for the hospitality and great coffee.

Actors Zach Grenier and Marin Ireland, who will performing  in Rockaway on Dec. 6, is our guest on this week's podcast with host Mark Healey.

Grenier, who has appeared  in The Good Wife, Deadwood and Fight Club and Ireland, whose credits include Homeland, The Divide and Mildred Pierce.will be appearing in "Theater of War" an event which presents dramatic readings from Sophocles’ Ajax at Fort Tilden.  Hosted by the Rockaway Theatre Company at the RTC’s Post Theater, the performance is part of Theater of War’s Soldiers and Citizens Tour.

The Rockaway production is also supported by Queens Borough President Melinda Katz.

Ajax recounts the tragedy of the suicide of a great, respected warrior. It is translated, directed and facilitated by Bryan Doerries. TOW notes the work “read(s) like textbook descriptions of wounded warriors, struggling under the weight of psychological and physical injuries to maintain their dignity, identity, and honor.”

This week, former NYC Councilman and U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner will join the show to discuss the latest issues facing Rockaway.  Weiner, who now concentrates on being a dad and pursuing media and consulting opportunities is still very much talked about on the peninsula, and many wish he, not Bill de Blasio, were the mayor of NYC.

On this week's Riding The Wave, Jack Freidman, Executive Director of The Queens Chamber of Commerce, will join us to discuss the upcoming Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 21.  The newly formed Rockaway Beach Merchant Association will be throwing the party, which will run from noon to 5 p.m. at Beach 94th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard.

We'll also discuss the QCC's support of the Queens Way project, which by it's very nature, directly opposes the efforts for the complete restoration of the Rockaway Beach Rail Line.

This week, NYC Councilman Donovan joins the show to to speak on a number of issues, including the controversey surrounding Rockaway Youth Task Force leader Milan Taylor, the revelations that Level 3 sex offenders are living in the homeless shelter at the former Daytop Village drug rehab facility, as well as the Councilman's efforts to improve transportation in Rockaway.  Also, the Councilman will discuss a city-wide anti-violence initiative that is coming to Rockaway, as well as his efforts to rehabiltate Beach 54th Street in Edgemere.

This week, New York State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. joins the show to discuss the topics that concern Rockaway.  After serving seven years in the New York City Council, Senator Addabbo was elected to the NYS Senate in 2008.   

Hosted each week by Mark C. Healey, managing editor of The Wave, Rockaway's newspaper since 1893, Riding The Wave is a Rockaway Podcast. 

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On this week's Riding The Wave, we're joined by Queens Borough President Melinda Katz.  She will discuss the latest and most crucial issues facing the peninsula with host Mark Healey, the Managing Editor of The Wave, Rockaway's newspaper since 1893.

This week, Jonathan Gaska, the District Manager for Community Board 14, joins the show to discuss the latest developments in Rockaway.  Gaska is entering his 25th year at the helm of CB14, and has seen just about everything there is to see on the peninsula.