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May 15, 2009

With the booming popularity of the sport, the number of surf shops has grown in the metro area. Here’s an updated listing of New York Surf Shops

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On the Right Coast: Surfing Rockaway

CS: How did you start surfing and where? SR: I started surfing two years ago. I had wanted to try surfing since I was a teenager but never took the initiative to make it happen. In 2003 I pulled through a break-up that was particularly hard on me and really needed to throw myself into [...]

CitySurfer's Journal: Winter 1999

Tue, 17 Nov 1998 From: barney@interport.net Subject: Re: surf1ng Hi Lisa, I haven’t been in the water in about a month. We’ve had a rotten weather pattern the last four weeks. Although a little chest high swell reportedly splashed ashore on Long Island this past sunday. The water is sliding into the low 50s, which [...]

CitySurfers Journal: Fall 1998

Date: Tues, 25 Aug 1998 Score!!!!!!! Tuesday was the day in North Jersey. Brendan and I checked Sandy Hook first where the swell was ridiculously small. We checked a bunch of breaks before settling on Loch Somethingorother which had about a dozen guys out in solid head-high swell. We got in the water there right [...]


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