Mr. Boyle, 55, hopes to enlist his mother to hand out business cards and to persuade his son to take up a delivery route. For his main seller of advertising, Mr. Boyle, who used to own a bar, tapped a 74-year-old man who used to be his liquor salesman.

His challenge to The Wave has locals buzzing, as does his choice for a newsroom; the greenhouse-like structure has a glass wall overlooking Beach Channel Drive, and still has an old green taxi sign adorned with shamrocks.

The location “lends itself to community input,” Mr. Boyle said. The building was flooded during Hurricane Sandy, and Mr. Boyle and some friends recently refinished the interior and laid a new concrete floor.

On Wednesday, the office consisted of Mr. Boyle’s laptop on a small card table and three folding chairs. Mr. Boyle said he would furnish the place slowly, as the staff — two salespeople and a young, full-time reporter — settled in, because “to open up fully grown would be really arrogant.”

He added, “There will probably be a refrigerator with one or two beers in it, for local color.”

As for filling the pages, he said he had signed up locals to write for no pay: a surf maven for a column on that topic, a bartender to write about bars, and other experts on beach news and wellness. The paper would also include Boyle-ing Points — “a humor column that’s at least funny to me” — which Mr. Boyle used to write for The Wave.

Mr. Boyle will own the paper with Patricia Adams, the publisher of The Forum newspaper in nearby Howard Beach, Queens, which will help with the layout, composition and some other tasks.

At The Wave, Mr. Boyle helped lead the paper to several awards this year from the New York Press Association, including one for its editorials.