5. There Was Once a MoMA PS1 Art Show in the Abandoned Chapel
In 2014, to celebrate the reopening of Fort Tilden following Superstorm Sandy, the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy sponsored a free art show called “Rockaway!” in an abandoned chapel. The purpose of the show was to show the “ongoing recovery of the Rockaway Peninsula.” The show was created by Klaus Biesenbach, the director of MoMA PS1, and featured the works of Patti Smith, Adrián Villar Rojas and Janet Cardiff. The chapel still stands today, and remains architecturally intact.