...two blocks away. "Just on the heels of one horror, another," said Fern Liberman, who also lives nearby. The Rockaway Beach neighborhood is on a strip of land at the southern end of Queens, just across Jamaica Bay from John F. Kennedy International...

...another terrible blow: first, of course, to the families of those aboard, but also to New York City, especially the Rockaway Beach neighborhood still mourning the loss of as many as 100 residents - most of them firefighters or employees at the Cantor...

...N.M. Robert Allen Woolf, of Juneau, and Imelda Aquino Ramos, of Douglas. Brian Christopher Reynolds, of Rockaway Beach, Ore., and Mary Esther Davies, of Rosemount, Minn. Justin Todd Churillo and Greta Caroline Steininger, of Littleton...

...Center -- was put on high alert in the minutes and hours after the crash. Fighter jets flew over the scene in the Rockaway Beach section of Queens. All three metropolitan-area airports -- Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark, N.J. -- were closed...