Neighborhoods in New York City
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.
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.
How locals move
Getting around Rockaway the local way
- 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. Last edited 2025-09.
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