The Wave of Long Island is the longest-lived and most widely circulated newspaper in the Rockaway Peninsula, New York City Borough of Queens. The weekly paper, currently under the editorship of Mark Healey, is well known to Rockaway residents for coverage of community events and local politics. The paper contains considerable historical information about Rockaway, largely provided by historian Emil Lucev.

The paper originated in the aftermath of the great Rockaway Beach Seaside fire of 1892. A local publisher, in the desire to keep the community informed of the event, published a broadsheet with the headline, "WAVE OF FIRE SWEEPS ROCKAWAY". The favorable response to the broadsheet led him to establish a weekly newspaper which he dubbed The Wave of Long Island after the initial headline.[1][2]

Since then, The Wave has been dedicated to providing the community of Rockaway a resource of current events and as a vital tool in which to defend their first amendment rights. The Wave also provides all the small businesses in Rockaway an opportunity to reach their consumers, who so desperately need their services. That is why they say, “everybody reads The Wave.”