The Rockaway's are home to some of New York City's only beaches. With full exposure to the Atlantic Ocean waves, the surfing culture there is the strongest in the City. Those surfers work up an appetite when shredding the waves, and have created the need for some pretty great foodie options in the process. Check out this video from our friends at Thrillist to see what's going on out on the beach.

New York City is hardly a remote surfing hamlet, but it is home to one: the Rockaways, a peninsula of beachfront neighborhoods where Atlantic waves meet the shockingly beautiful shores of residential Queens. Out here at the end of the A line, a cohort of year-round surfers live, work, and play. Just like the other 8.5mil people who call NYC home, they like to eat -- and well. In this episode of Food/Groups, we met up with die-hard disciples of this unlikely beach town to talk about how -- and why -- it's become such a culinary hotbed.

Kakiat County Park is a 376-acre park in New York, just about 30 miles north-west of the City. Redditor merg_flerg was recently up there hiking off the Orange Trail when he captured this telephoto panorama of the New York City skyline, as seen from the mountain top 28.57 miles away.

YouTube channel New Netherland Now is a channel dedicated to shining a spotlight on America's forgotten Dutch colonial past. Not only here in New York City, but all across the area we know now as New England, the Dutch were here first and established their own colony. In this first video of a 4-part series, learn why most Americans do not know about their own Dutch history.

Why do Americans have this gap in their history about the fact that large parts of the origins of the United States used to be Dutch? In four parts, best-selling author Russell Shorto gives a tour through what used to be New Amsterdam, and what we now call New York.