Rockaway, Queens
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The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is a peninsula at the southern edge of the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York. Relatively isolated from
The Rockaway Boardwalk, a visitor attraction on the peninsula
Aerial view of the Rockaway Peninsula (looking west)
1899 cartoon by Jimmy Swinnerton shows Father Knickerbocker pulling Rockaway into New York City
Broad Channel, Queens in 1915
Breezy Point, Queens
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Breezy Point is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula, between Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay to the north and the Atlantic Ocean
Rockaway, Queens
…Riis Park, Beach 149th Street to Beach 169th Street Breezy Point, from Beach 169th to the western tip; this includes the smaller areas of Roxbury and Rockaway Point, as well as Fort Tilden The peninsula is part of…
Breezy Point Shopping Center
Apartment house abandoned during construction, 1973. Photo by Arthur Tress.
Hurricane Sandy damage
Unisphere in summer