Rockaway Park is a neighborhood in theNew York Cityborough ofQueens. The area is on theRockaway Peninsula, nestled betweenJamaica Bay to the north and theAtlantic Ocean to the south. The neighborhood ofRockaway Beach lies on its eastern border while the community ofBelle Harbor is situated on its western side. The neighborhood is part ofQueens Community Board 14.[2]
Rockaway Park | |
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 Local fire station | |
 Location within New York City | |
| Coordinates:40°34′44″N73°50′28″W / 40.579°N 73.841°W /40.579; -73.841 | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New York |
| City | New York City |
| County/Borough | Queens |
| Community District | Queens 14[1] |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Code | 11694 |
| Area codes | 718, 347, 929, and917 |
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The heavily Irish Rockaway Park has been called the "Irish Riviera".[3] The2000 United States census showed that 36.0% of the population were ofIrish ancestry in theZCTA forZIP Code 11694.[4] TheSaint Patrick's Day parade in Rockaway is the second-largestSt. Patrick's DayParade inNew York City, second only to New York City's Saint Patrick's Day Parade upFifth Avenue inManhattan.[5]
The neighborhood is centered around Beach 116th Street, a two-block street that runs from Beach Channel Drive southward to Ocean Promenade.[6] At the street's northern end isTribute Park, which has a memorial to the 343 firefighters killed in theSeptember 11 attacks,[7] and at its southern tip is a memorial to the 265 victims ofAmerican Airlines Flight 587, which crashed nearby inBelle Harbor on November 12, 2001.[8]
Transportation
editTheNew York City Subway'sA and S trains serve theRockaway Park – Beach 116th Street station, the terminus of theIND Rockaway Line and its associated services.[9]
The area is served by bus routes operated byMTA Bus Company. TheQ22 bus runs the length of theRockaway Peninsula.[10] TheQ52 SBS runs from Beach 54th Street in Arverne, over theCross Bay Bridge viaCross Bay Boulevard toWoodhaven.[10] TheQ53 SBS runs from Beach 116th Street, over theCross Bay Bridge viaCross Bay Boulevard toWoodside, andWoodside LIRR station and61st Street subway station.[10] TheQ35 runs from Beach 116th Street to theFlatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College subway station, and theBrooklyn College, inBrooklyn via theMarine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge andFlatbush Avenue. It goes throughBelle Harbor,Neponsit, andJacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula.[10]
In the aftermath ofHurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012, which caused massive infrastructure damage to theA train south of the station atHoward Beach – JFK Airport, ferry operatorSeaStreak began running a city-subsidized ferry service between a makeshift ferry slip at Beach 108th Street andBeach Channel Drive in Rockaway Park andPier 11/Wall Street in Manhattan'sFinancial District, then continuing on to theEast 34th Street Ferry Landing. In August 2013, a stop was added atBrooklyn Army Terminal.[11] The service was extended multiple times,[12] finally ending on October 31, 2014.[13] On May 1, 2017,NYC Ferry's Rockaway route started operations between Pier 11/Wall Street in Manhattan's Financial District and Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Park, with a stop at Brooklyn Army Terminal.[14][15]
References
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- ^"NYC Planning | Community Profiles".communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning.Archived from the original on June 22, 2019. RetrievedApril 7, 2018.
- ^Queens BoardsArchived January 26, 2024, at theWayback Machine,New York City. Accessed January 26, 2024.
- ^Grace, Melissa."Boro goes for brogue"Archived May 29, 2022, at theWayback Machine,New York Daily News, March 9, 2007. Accessed July 13, 2017. "On Saturday, leprechauns scampered by bagpipe bands as New York State’s second largest St. Patrick’s Day parade struck out through the thickly Irish communities of Belle Harbor and Rockaway Park.... Also in the Rockaways — which was known in the 1950s as 'the Irish Riviera' — Belle Harbor’s house parties, which for years have drawn the city’s top politicians, swung into the evening Saturday."
- ^DP-2: Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000 from the Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data for ZCTA5 11694Archived December 27, 1996, at theWayback Machine,United States Census Bureau. Accessed July 13, 2017.
- ^Queens County St. Patrick's Day Parade & Cultural CommitteeArchived June 20, 2013, at theWayback Machine. Accessed September 27, 2011.
- ^"BEACH 116TH STREET, Rockaway Park".Forgotten New York. June 5, 1998.Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. RetrievedJuly 16, 2016.
- ^Tribute ParkArchived September 22, 2019, at theWayback Machine,New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed September 17, 2019. "It includes a mosaic centerpiece, a cupola, and a granite rock engraved with the names of all 343 firefighters who died on September 11."
- ^Chan, Sewell."Crash Memorial Evokes Peace and Home"Archived October 1, 2019, at theWayback Machine,The New York Times, November 13, 2006. Accessed September 17, 2019. "Nearly 1,000 mourners gathered under a foggy sky in Queens yesterday morning to mark the fifth anniversary of the crash and to watch as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg dedicated a long-awaited memorial to the 265 victims.... The city spent about $9.2 million on the memorial, on Beach 116th Street in Rockaway Park, next to the wooden boardwalk that runs along the Atlantic Ocean.... In the end, the city opted for a 7,115-square-foot site at Beach 116th Street, which is in a commercial district and close to a subway station."
- ^"Subway Map"(PDF).Metropolitan Transportation Authority. April 2025. RetrievedApril 2, 2025.
- ^abcd"Queens Bus Map"(PDF).Metropolitan Transportation Authority. August 2022. RetrievedSeptember 29, 2022.
- ^"Seastreak Ferry New Jersey, New York and New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard". Seastreakusa.com.Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. RetrievedApril 20, 2014.
- ^"Rockaway Ferry Floats On Through May, But Trip Will Cost Nearly Double - Rockaway Beach - DNAinfo.com New York". Dnainfo.com. January 20, 2014. Archived fromthe original on March 30, 2014. RetrievedApril 20, 2014.
- ^"Commuters Bemoan Closing of Rockaway Ferry - NY1".www.ny1.com. Archived fromthe original on November 3, 2014. RetrievedJune 6, 2022.
- ^"NYC launches ferry service with Queens, East River routes".NY Daily News. Associated Press. May 1, 2017. Archived fromthe original on May 1, 2017. RetrievedMay 1, 2017.
- ^Levine, Alexandra S.; Wolfe, Jonathan (May 1, 2017)."New York Today: Our City's New Ferry".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331.Archived from the original on May 1, 2017. RetrievedMay 1, 2017.