To all our volunteers: thank you for all your efforts during the abbreviated 2020 season! Your hard work every Tuesday morning helped to maintain our beautiful park. A special thanks to Al and Peggy of the DeMatteis Foundation.

Photo credit: Joe O'Brien

Sponsored by Friends of Tribute Park
Beach 116th Street & Beach Channel Drive
Rockaway Park, NY
TributePark@gmail.com

9/11 Ceremony 2020

photo credit: Richard E. Santaga

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Community Marks 9/11 Anniversary at Redesigned Queens Park

Evaluation for 9/11 Ceremony

photo credit: Richard E. Santaga

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Reconstruction Progress

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Volunteers Needed

Please stop by any Tuesday
between 8:30 –10:00am
to help in the park
(weather permitting)
starting September 15th.
Any time you can give will be helpful to maintain the park.
Weeding, snipping, planting, sweeping and watering are a number of tasks for the volunteers.
Wear comfortable work/gardening clothes.
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FACE MASKS REQUIRED

History

In the days after the WTC attack on September 11, 2001, when it became clear that Rockaway was perhaps the hardest hit community in the city, a group of Rockaway activists sat down to plan a memorial for the locals who died in the attack.
Everybody agreed that the perfect site was a triangle on the bay at Beach 116 Street, an empty lot belonging to the city's Parks Department, from which many Rockaway residents watched the Twin Towers burn and then fall.
On November 6, 2005, after a lot of hard work, the park opened without its signature cupola which was added five months later.

The Wave, September 2009

Mission Statement

The park was created to serve as a tribute, not a memorial, to those Rockaway residents who died in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. The intention was to provide a place where community members can reflect on their lost loved ones and find comfort to move on with their lives.

Help

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sponsors
of Tribute Park

We’ve had more

than

250,000

visitors since

April 11, 2011

CONTACT US
Friends of Tribute Park, Inc.
P.O. Box 940214
Rockaway, N Y 11694
TributePark@gmail.com