Beach 97th Concessions
Beach pavillion · Rockaway Park ·
Food, drinks, live music & rentals on the boardwalk
Food, drinks, live music & rentals on the boardwalk
"Head over to the boardwalk at Beach 97th Street and you’ll find a large outdoor space filled with vendors, picnic tables, and occasionally live music. It’s a great place for a group, because everybody can get something different, and nobody has to be annoying about it. Some of our favorites include La Cevicheria, a Peruvian stall with cold, citrus-bathed fish, La Fruteria, for iced lattes and avocado toast, and Sand Shark Bar—that’s where you’ll get alcohol." - willa moore, molly fitzpatrick, neha talreja
"As a Jamaica Bay Festival highlight, I can catch a beach party and live music at Rockaway Beach 97th Concessions." - Alex Erdekian
"If you find yourself in the Rockaways near Beach 97, with a group of people who couldn’t agree on what to eat if their lives depended on it, head to the concessions area. There, you’ll find a large outdoor space filled with vendors, picnic tables, and occasionally live music. Then, everybody in your party can get something different, and nobody is allowed to be annoying about it. A few of our favorites include La Cevicheria, a Peruvian stall with cold, citrus-bathed fish that costs less than $20, La Fruteria for iced lattes and avocado toast, and Sand Shark Bar—that’s where you’ll get alcohol." - Willa Moore
"The team behind Brooklyn Bazaar, operating here as Rockaway Beach Bazaar, has been chosen in the Parks Department's notice to receive a proposed 15-year concessions contract and has committed to pay the city $300,000 in annual fees in year one with increases thereafter; managers Belvy Klein and Aaron Broudo say they will give existing vendors first dibs on their current locations, are awaiting Parks Department figures to set rent (hoping to finalize them by month’s end), and plan to transform the Beach 97th area into a year-round destination and add up to 20 concessions stands over time — plans that have nonetheless alarmed locals concerned about outsiders taking over." - Tanay Warerkar
"Vendors discovered extensive, deliberate contamination and destruction inside the Shore Front Parkway concessions building: a pervasive rotten-fish stench led to finding bags of raw fish and bottles of sour milk and rotting meat stuffed into ceiling ventilation shafts; a sealed concessions office was forced open and found ransacked with broken equipment and shelving; many floor drains were filled with sand that concealed concrete beneath. Merchants characterize the scene as sabotage rather than a prank. A formal NYPD complaint cited damage to metal doors, an office in disarray, and food placed inside pipes and vents, with estimated damages over $10,000; the incident was classified as criminal mischief (reported May 13). Cleanup efforts are ongoing, vendors worry about missing the busy Memorial Day weekend, and some locals speculate the attack was retaliation after a controversial change in boardwalk management." - Chris Shott
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