Rockaway Park
Rockaway Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
Rockaway Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The area is on the Rockaway Peninsula, nestled between Jamaica Bay to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The neighborhood of Rockaway Beach lies on its eastern border while the community of Belle Harbor is situated on its western side. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14.
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Worth seeing in and around Rockaway Park
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.
9.2 km · building in New York City · Wikipedia - 02New 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.
7.6 km · U.S. House district in Brooklyn and Queens, NY · Wikipedia - 03Marine 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.
7.1 km · public park in Brooklyn, New York · 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.
3.1 km · beachfront park in New York City · Wikipedia - 05New 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.
2.8 km · U.S. House district for 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.
3.8 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.
2.3 km · 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.
5 km · park and historic military installation in New York City · Wikipedia - 09Wyckoff House
The Wyckoff House, or Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House, is a historic house at 5816 Clarendon Road in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, within Milton Fidler Park. It is situated on land that New Netherland director general Wouter van Twiller purchased from the Lenape natives in approximately 1636.
9.9 km · historic house in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia - 10Kingsborough 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.
7.8 km · community college in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rockaway Park
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 8 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 22 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 30 km
- Stations
- John F. Kennedy International Airport, 8.5 km · Floyd Bennett Field, 4.4 km · Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway, 9 km · Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue, 7.7 km · Broad Channel, 3.9 km
- Philadelphia → Rockaway Park133 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $13–18
- Hartford → Rockaway Park163 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · $15–21
- Providence/Warwick → Rockaway Park233 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · $23–31
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rockaway Park
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 Park. 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 Park
Rockaway Park is 11 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rockawayneighborhoods of Queens in New York City2.5 km
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife RefugeWildlife refuge in New York City4.2 km
- Far Rockawayneighborhood in borough of Queens, New York City, United States7.5 km
- Rockaway Beachneighborhood in borough of Queens, New York City, New York, United States2.6 km
- Manhattan Beachneighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, United States of America8.7 km
- Canarsieneighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States of America8.8 km