Rockaway
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.
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 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. In the 2010s, it became one of the city's most quickly gentrifying areas.
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Worth seeing in and around Rockaway
10 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.
- 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.
7.5 km · building in New York City · Wikipedia - 02New York's 5th congressional district
New York's 5th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives, represented by Democrat Gregory Meeks. The district is located in Queens.
1.6 km · U.S. House district for New York · Wikipedia - 03New York's 8th congressional district
New York's 8th congressional district for the U.S. House of Representatives is in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is currently represented by Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader.
8.9 km · U.S. House district in Brooklyn and Queens, NY · Wikipedia - 04Jacob Riis Park
Jacob Riis Park, also called Jacob A. Riis Park and Riis Park, is a seaside park on the southwestern portion of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It lies at the foot of the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, east of Fort Tilden, and west of Neponsit and Rockaway Beach.
5.3 km · beachfront park in New York City · Wikipedia - 05Marine Park
Marine Park is a public park located on Jamaica Bay in the neighborhood of Marine Park in Brooklyn, New York. Its 798 acres surround the westernmost inlet of the bay.
8.9 km · public park in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia - 06Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge in New York City, New York, that crosses Rockaway Inlet. The bridge, which opened on July 3, 1937, connects the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, with Flatbush Avenue, in turn providing access to Floyd Bennett Field, Belt Parkway, and the Marine Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.
5.9 km · bridge in New York · Wikipedia - 07Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge
The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge is a toll bridge that carries Cross Bay Boulevard across Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York City, between Broad Channel and the Rockaway Peninsula.
700 m · bridge in Queens, New York · Wikipedia - 08Fort Tilden
Fort Tilden, also known as Fort Tilden Historic District, is a former United States Army installation on the coast in the New York City borough of Queens. Fort Tilden now forms part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, and is administered by the National Park Service.
7.2 km · park and historic military installation in New York City · Wikipedia - 09Kingsborough Community College
Kingsborough Community College is a public community college in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and the only community college in Brooklyn.
9.8 km · community college in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. · Wikipedia - 10Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge
The Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge is a bridge that carries Cross Bay Boulevard across Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York City, between Howard Beach and Broad Channel. The fixed bridge, carrying six lanes of Cross Bay Boulevard, is named for the late Joseph P. Addabbo, who represented the area in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1986.
6.4 km · bridge in Queens, New York · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rockaway
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 7 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 22 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 32 km
- Stations
- John F. Kennedy International Airport, 6.8 km · Floyd Bennett Field, 6.3 km · Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street station, 1.7 km · Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway, 9.8 km · Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue, 5.6 km
- Philadelphia → Rockaway119 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · $12–17
- Hartford → Rockaway180 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · $18–25
- Providence/Warwick → Rockaway273 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · $26–36
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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 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 Rockaway. 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 Rockaway
Rockaway is 11 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife RefugeWildlife refuge in New York City3.5 km
- Far Rockawayneighborhood in borough of Queens, New York City, United States5.3 km
- Rockaway Beachneighborhood in borough of Queens, New York City, New York, United States500 m
- Arverneneighborhood in Queens, New York City2.9 km
- Canarsieneighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States of America9.6 km
- Rockaway Parkneighborhood in Queens, New York, United States of America2.2 km