| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York. By Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. Kaplan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xviii, 237 pp. Cloth, $52.50, ISBN 0-231-12848-7. Paper, $27.50, ISBN 0-231-12849-5.)

Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. Kaplan dedicated this history of a relatively isolated peninsula jutting eleven miles from Long Island but within New York City's political boundaries to the 70 Rockaway residents who died in the 9/ 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the 265 victims of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 two months later. They were inspired to do so because "at least temporarily, this forgotten section of New York City came to public attention" (p. 7); the victims gave faces to the area's dramatic story, one that reinforces and challenges current scholarly interpretations of many postwar urban neighborhood transformations. This tale of Rockaway begins with its birth as a beach resort and ends with its development as several distinct residential enclaves, ranging from low-income ghettos to gated gilded communities and populated by African Americans, Irish Americans, Latinos, and Orthodox Jews. It is a tale of race and space.

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