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Edgemere

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Worth seeing in and around Edgemere

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Temple of Israel Synagogue

    The Temple of Israel Synagogue is a historic former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 88 Beach 84th Street, Rockaway, Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was "built in 1921 to replace an earlier synagogue that was destroyed by fire." In 2002 the building was acquired by Haven Ministries and used as a non-denominational Pentecostal church.

    3.7 km · historic synagogue located in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens in New York City · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    O'Donohue Park

    O'Donohue Park is a public green space located in the Far Rockaway neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens in New York City. The park is located at the eastern tip of the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk.

    1.6 km · public park in Queens, New York · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bayswater Point State Park

    Bayswater Point State Park is a 17-acre state park located on Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York. The park is located at the western end of Mott Avenue in Bayswater near Far Rockaway and is built on land that once housed the mansion and estate of banker Louis A. Heinsheimer.

    1.5 km · public park in Queens, New York · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rock Hall

    Rock Hall is a historic house museum and park owned and operated by the Town of Hempstead, located within Lawrence, a village in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.

    3.1 km · historic house museum in New York, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Trinity Chapel

    Trinity Chapel, also known as St. John's Church and Beth-El Temple Church of God in Christ, is a historic Episcopal church at 1874 Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.

    1.6 km · chapel in Queens, New York, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    United States Post Office

    US Post Office-Far Rockaway is a historic post office building located at Far Rockaway in Queens County, New York, United States. It was built in 1935, and is one of six post offices in New York State designed by architect Eric Kebbon as a consultant to the Office of the Supervising Architect.

    1.6 km · government building in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York · Wikipedia

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Getting to Edgemere

Airports
John F. Kennedy (JFK), 5 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 22 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 36 km
Stations
Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue, 1.3 km · Beach 67th Street station, 2.5 km · Beach 90th Street, 4 km · Beach 60th Street, 1.8 km · Beach 44th Street, 800 m
  • Philadelphia → Edgemere
    138 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · $14–19
  • Hartford → Edgemere
    158 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · $15–21
  • Providence/Warwick → Edgemere
    227 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · $22–31
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Edgemere. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inNYC Ferry runs a ferry from the Financial District in Manhattan via Southwest Brooklyn in Brooklyn.

From Wikivoyage: Queens/The Rockaways, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    53 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    558 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,615 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,622 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,745 km

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Around it

Next door to Edgemere

Edgemere is 11 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Far Rockawayneighborhood in borough of Queens, New York City, United States1 km
  • Rockaway Beachneighborhood in borough of Queens, New York City, New York, United States3.9 km
  • Arverneneighborhood in Queens, New York City1.5 km
  • Hammelsneighborhood3.5 km
  • Bayswaterneighbourhood in New York600 m