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Far Rockaway

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Far Rockaway

5 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
    Bayswater Point State Park

    Public park in Queens, New York

    1.4 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    O'Donohue Park

    Public park in Queens, New York

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rock Hall

    Historic house museum in New York, United States

    1.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Trinity Chapel

    Chapel in Queens, New York, United States

    400 m · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    United States Post Office

    Government building in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York

    400 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Far Rockaway

Airports
John F. Kennedy (JFK), 4 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 22 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 36 km
Stations
Beach 67th Street station, 3.9 km · Beach 36th Street, 1.6 km · Beach 60th Street, 3.2 km · Beach 44th Street, 2.2 km
  • Philadelphia → Far Rockaway
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · $14–19
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  • Hartford → Far Rockaway
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · $15–21
    GuideToday
  • Providence/Warwick → Far Rockaway
    226 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · $22–31
    GuideToday
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Far Rockaway

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 Far Rockaway. 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

    52 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    557 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,616 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,623 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,746 km

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Around it

Next door to Far Rockaway

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

  • Arverneneighborhood in Queens, New York City2.9 km
  • Bayswaterneighbourhood in New York1.1 km
  • Meadowmereneighborhood of Queens in New York City3.6 km
  • Edgemerehuman settlement in Queens, New York, United States of America1.5 km
  • Warnervillehuman settlement in Queens, New York, United States of America3.9 km
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