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A job fair was set for Wednesday, March 26, at P.S. 30 in Far Rockaway.
Federal officials are pushing back post-Sandy reconstruction work for the sake of the piping plover.
Schumer was in the Rockaways to discuss a relief bill for flood insurance.
Cleanup of the secluded beach will start 16 months after the storm, officials said.
The cost of the beachside bathrooms and lifeguard shacks rose from $105 million to $113.5 million.
The Build It Back program has spent a small portion of its multi-million dollar budget.
The beachfront hockey rink in Rockaway Beach will begin construction in the fall.
The ferry was brought to the peninsula in November 2012 after the A train was damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
The pricey beach bathrooms were installed during piping plover nesting season.
Work will have to stop twice to accommodate the endangered Piping Plover, which nests in the area.
The Department of Design and Construction said it is still negotiating the rate for the guards.
Destroyed pilings will delay the construction by about a month, a city official said.
The Parks Department said the cost of securing the uninstalled bathrooms is included in the contract.
The city now says the project "could last a few years."
The Rockaway Beach boardwalk construction should begin by the winter 2014, according to Parks.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov should be spared the death penalty.
The actress spotted the suspect outside her third-floor balcony, sources said.
A shortage of bilingual therapists has made the problem especially difficult in some districts.
The victim suffered a fractured skull base, multiple spinal fractures, bruised lungs and other injuries.
The break happened just after 4 a.m. on Pacific Street near Albany Avenue.
Officer Ryan Nash shot Sayfullo Saipov who killed eight people with a rented truck, officials said.
The new owners have no plans to change the properties, according to a realtor who brokered the deal.
The deadly attack left eight people dead and a dozen injured, officials said.
Five men from Argentina, a woman from Belgium, a West Village resident and a man from N.J. were killed.
The vote paves the way for developers to build a complex with retail space and 1,146 apartments.
The Queens County Bird Club is hoping to install two bird feeders in the park by the end of November.
Sayfullo Saipov was charged by federal prosecutors on Wednesday with aiding ISIS in a terror attack.
A new art gallery features the work of recovering addicts in East Harlem.
Catwalks, balconies, a secret staircase and elaborate ceiling panels were uncovered at the theater.
Preservation groups are writing letters — in crayon — to the library, which owns the home.