Rockaway new york, a peninsula in queens that fronts the atlantic ocean. It wasit 18 hundred, in early 19 hundreds, one of the major, major beach resort destinations in the country. At some point it got too crowded, and the people who could it the most started departing to other destinations because it had become too crowded for their enjoyment. Ye, consolidation is followed by stagnation. Once hipped to loom, becomes totally uncool, cancoon. And then comes the decline stage. Whether because of environ mental or economic or status reasons, the area just can't hold on sera happens to live in a resort community.