Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in New York City managed by the National Park Service as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in New York City managed by the National Park Service as part of Gateway National Recreation Area. It is composed of the open water and intertidal salt marshes and wetlands of Jamaica Bay. It lies entirely within the boundaries of New York City, divided between the boroughs of Brooklyn to the west and Queens to the east.
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Worth seeing in and around Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
One place 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.
- 01TWA Flight Center
The TWA Flight Center is a building at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, United States. Designed by Eero Saarinen and Associates for Trans World Airlines, the building was completed in 1962 and operated as an airport terminal for four decades.
5.5 km · building in New York City · Wikipedia
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Getting to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 5 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 18 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 30 km
- Stations
- John F. Kennedy International Airport, 5 km · Floyd Bennett Field, 5.8 km · Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway, 7 km · Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street station, 3.9 km · New Lots Avenue, 7.2 km
- Philadelphia → Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge133 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · $14–19
- Hartford → Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge161 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · $15–21
- Providence/Warwick → Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge232 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · $22–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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 Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is 7 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Jamaicaneighborhood of Queens, New York City, United States8.4 km
- Rockawayneighborhoods of Queens in New York City3 km
- Brownsvilleresidential neighborhood located in eastern Brooklyn, New York City, USA8.4 km
- East New Yorkresidential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States7.2 km
- Far Rockawayneighborhood in borough of Queens, New York City, United States6.4 km
- South Jamaicaneighborhood of Queens, New York City, New York, United States7.9 km