The popular Rockaway Beach in Queens was briefly shuttered for a period of time on Friday and Saturday due to shark sightings ...

NYC reports more shark sightings at beaches due to increased drone surveillance, leading to temporary beach closures.

Earlier in the week, the NYPD confirmed another shark sighting in the same area. On July 1, an FDNY drone identified a shark, ...

It’s “Shark Weekend” in New York City. Another shark was spotted swimming precariously close to swimmers at Rockaway Beach ...

Multiple shark sightings caused a temporary beach closure in New York City after two sharks were spotted in the waters off Rockaway beach in Queens.

New York City closed area beaches due to additional shark sightings on Tuesday. In a tweet, the New York Police Department's 100th Precinct wrote that "ALL of the Rockaway beaches" were closed for ...

The Parks Department said that the sharks were observed before beaches opened to swimming at 8:45 a.m. ET and that NYPD Aviation reported no sightings during a second flyover nearly two hours later.

New Yorkers looking to beat the heat headed to the Rockaways over Fourth of July weekend – and so did sharks. Sections of beach were closed daily from Thursday to Sunday after drones spotted sharks in ...

Also around 1 p.m., at Breezy Point in Queens, New York, and just a few miles south of Jones Beach, another shark was spotted a quarter mile off the shore, a spokesperson for the FDNY said, adding ...

The Parks Department cleared everyone out of the water from Beach 83rd Street to Beach 120th Street after a drone spotted a shark near Beach 102nd Street.

All beaches on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, New York, were temporarily closed for swimming on Tuesday (July 19) after officials reported "multiple shark sightings" near the shore.

Some beaches in New York City and along teh New Jersey shore are closed to swimming because of a threat of dangerous rip currents brought on by Hurricane Ernesto. This file photos is from 2019.