{"id":30673,"date":"2012-07-31T00:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T04:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=30673"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:48:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:48:50","slug":"best-beach-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/30673\/best-beach-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Adventures: The Best Beach in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Long Walks on the Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good date or bad date, a day\u2019s always better at the beach. We think Rockaway makes for an ideal date, but see <a title=\"permanent link to beaches near nyc\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/07\/14\/beaches-near-nyc-without-a-car\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this story<\/a> for other great beaches that are easily accessible from NYC without a car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Ride the rails a little over an hour to travel-worthy waves and eats at Rockaway Beach. Consider taking a surf or SUP\u00ad lesson if you\u2019re both new to the sport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Once you\u2019ve worked up an appetite, get in line at Tacoway Beach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Wash down a Mexican dish of locally-sourced seafood with a cup of Italian ice from John DiCosmo\u2019s neighboring stall. DiCosmo\u2019s rotating flavors, handmade with real fruit and fruit juices, include World Famous Lemon, Orange-Pineapple, Guava and Gooseberry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Enjoy your Italian ice (or something stronger at Conolly&#8217;s Bar) &#8217;til the sun goes down and the stars come out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/53604\/rockaway-beach\/\"><strong>Read our full guide to Rockaway Beach here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get there:<\/strong><em> Take the A to Broad Channel, transfer to the S to Rockaway Park-Beach 98<sup>th<\/sup> St.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo:<\/em> <a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to Brett Renfer&#039;s photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/robotconscience\/\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\" data-rapid_p=\"60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brett Renfer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Walks on the Beach Good date or bad date, a day\u2019s always better at the beach. We think Rockaway makes for an ideal date, but see this story for other great beaches that are easily accessible from NYC without a car. 1. Ride the rails a little over an hour to travel-worthy waves and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":54424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[784,759,785,758,315,770,325,781,326,752,799],"tags":[461,740,282,360,421],"class_list":{"0":"post-30673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adventure-activity-2","8":"category-bar-activity-2","9":"category-beaches-adventure-activity-2","10":"category-cafe-activity-2","11":"category-day-trips","12":"category-food-drink","13":"category-new-york","14":"category-outdoor-dining","15":"category-queens-outer-boroughs-destination","16":"category-subway-2","17":"category-surfing-adventure-activity-2","18":"tag-adventurous","19":"tag-dating-adventures","20":"tag-romantic","21":"tag-seafood","22":"tag-sustainable"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":54424,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2777256574_5bac30fd78_o-e1474822569803-350x197.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}