Rockaway Boardwalk

Rockaway Beach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is bounded by Arverne to the east and Rockaway Park to the west. It is named for the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, which is the largest urban beach in the United States, stretching from Beach 3rd to Beach 153rd Streets on the Atlantic Ocean.

The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is the name of a peninsula within the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York. Relatively isolated from Manhattan and other more urban parts of the city, Rockaway became a popular summer retreat in the 1830s. It has since become a mixture of lower, middle, and upper-class neighborhoods.

Rockaways’ Playland was an amusement park that operated from 1902 to 1987 in Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York City, at Beach 98th Street between Rockaway Beach Boulevard and the beachfront. It was opened in 1902 by William Wainwright and originally extended to the beachfront boardwalk. Playland’s area was greatly truncated in the late-1930s by the construction of the Shore Front Parkway at the behest of New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses.

Hammels is an area within Rockaway Beach on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located west of Arverne and east of Seaside, and is centered on Beach 84th Street. Its main thoroughfare is Beach Channel Drive. The A train travels through the neighborhood on the IND Rockaway Line.

Beach 90th Street, signed as Beach 90th Street–Holland, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and ten daily rush-hour only A trains.

Beach 98th Street, signed as Beach 98th Street–Playland, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and ten daily rush-hour only A trains.

Rockaway Beach Boulevard, opened in 1886, was the first major east-west thoroughfare on the Rockaway Peninsula in the Borough of Queens in New York City. Much of its route parallels the Rockaway Freeway and the IND Rockaway Line above the Freeway. The boulevard first forks off at its eastern end from Beach Channel Drive at Beach 35th Street in Edgemere and merges once again with Beach Channel Drive by Jacob Riis Park shortly before the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.

Temple of Israel Synagogue, also known as the Beth Israel Synagogue, Temple Israel Synagogue, and Haven Ministries, is a historic synagogue located in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The synagogue was built in 1921, and is a two-story, rectangular, steel frame and brick building in the Classical Revival style.

Seaside is a section of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by the Rockaway Beach neighborhood on the east, and by the neighborhood of Rockaway Park on the west. Formerly a resort community of small seasonal bungalows, Seaside is today dominated by middle-income high-rise Mitchell-Lama apartment buildings along its south shore beachfront.

Scholars' Academy is a uniformed preparatory school consisting of a middle school (grades 6-8) and a high school (grades 9-12) for gifted and talented children located in Rockaway Park.From a pilot program, Scholars' Academy has evolved into a co-ed grade 6-12 middle/high school. There are currently six 6th grade classes, seven 7th grade classes, and seven 8th grade classes of the middle school with a student-to-teacher ratio of 33:1.