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The Rockaway Peninsula

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  • JAMAICA BAY PARK, Mott Basin to the City Line, part of Gateway National Recreation Area  

Far Rockaway

 

 

 

The area known for the Bungalow's which were the vacationing homes of many New Yorkers.

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Belle Harbor

 

 

The name given to this area by  Frederick J. Lancaster, the president of the West Rockaway Land Company that developed this area.

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Far Rockaway
Rockaway Beach

 

 

This neighborhood named for Rockaway Beach. At one time this area's nickname was "the Irish Riviera" and it has one of the best beaches in New York.

Jacob Riis Park

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Guest Writer's/

Neighborhood of the month

  • ROCKAWAY BEACH and BOARDWALK, Beach 3 St to Beach 153 St and Boardwalk to Atlantic Ocean 

    • ROCKAWAY DOUGHBOY STATUE or Rockaway Veterans Memorial by Joseph P. Polilia

 

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  • VETERANS CIRCLE, Rockaway Beach Blvd., between Beach 120 St. and Beach 121 St. 

    • VETERAN'S CIRCLE and MEMORIAL CIRCLE

 

  • Ft. TILDEN, part of Gateway National Recreation Area

Rockaway Park

 

 

 

This is another neighborhood in the Rockaways and it too was referred as the "Irish Riviera".  

Ft.Tilden

Rockaway Park
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