How Realistic is a Luxury Campground at Rockaway Beach?

Tessa Stuart



If you are one of the curmudgeons who spurned Rockaway Beach for Coney Island shortly after the Rockabus began depositing Williamsburgians on its sandy, trash-strewn shores, then you were probably none to pleased to learn of Camp Rockaway, a proposed campground fashioned in the image of the beach's turn-of-the-century tent colonies, but outfitted like a Wes Anderson set complete with campfires, hammocks, hot tubs, and aesthetically-pleasing signage.

It's the brainchild of Kent Johnson (Johnson owns a design and building company, milktrout) and in the last month, a campaign to fund the campground raised $50,000, but how realistic is it?

Looking at the Kickstarter, an official with the Department of Planning was a bit flummoxed. (Let it be duly noted: Camp Rockaway hasn't submitted an application with the department yet, so there are a lot of unknowns, including the precise location, the status of that location and the nature of the proposed buildin


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