Broad Channel’s flooding made it into the news a bit. Here are some sources. First, from the Wall Street Journal: Before the storm struck on Monday, the firefighters walked the streets of Broad ...

Metrofocus from WNET 13 published an interesting article about the Broad Channel Historical Society and how it was affected by Hurricane Sandy, and how it’s repairing the historical documents that ...

Broad Channel may only be a mile long and four blocks wide, but this “city-by-the-bay” has a history nearly as expansive as its more populous neighbors across the water. The 128-page collection of ...

Broad Channel is one of New York’s most unusual neighborhoods: a tiny marshfront community on an island in Jamaica Bay. It’s served by a handful of businesses along Cross Bay Blvd., like these three, ...

Jen Perez woke up on Wednesday morning to a perfect confluence of events — a night of heavy rains and high tide coming in just when her kids had to go to school. Flooding on her block in Broad Channel ...

With the consolidation of New York City in 1898, Broad Channel Island in Jamaica Bay officially became part of the borough of Queens. The low, marshy island was populated only by a small community of ...