Back راکوی بیچ، کوئینز AZB Rockaway Beach (Queens) German Rockaway Beach (Queens) Basque راکاوی بیچ، کوئینز Persian Rockaway Beach (Queens) French روک اوے بیچ، کوئینز Urdu
Rockaway Beach | |
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 Rockaway Beach in 2013 | |
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| Coordinates: 40°35′10″N 73°48′43″W / 40.586°N 73.812°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New York |
| City |  New York City |
| County/Borough |  Queens |
| Community District | Queens 14[1] |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 13,449 |
| Ethnicity | |
| • White | 59.2% |
| • Black | 29.3% |
| • Hispanic | 14.5% |
| • Asian | 2.0% |
| • Other | 5.9% |
| Economics | |
| • Median income | $37,248 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Code | 11693 |
| Area codes | 718, 347, 929, and 917 |
Rockaway Beach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is bounded by Arverne to the east and Rockaway Park to the west. It is named for the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, which is the largest urban beach in the United States, stretching from Beach 3rd to Beach 153rd Streets on the Atlantic Ocean.[2] The neighborhood, with 13,000 residents as of 2010[update], is also known as the "Irish Riviera" because of its large Irish American population.
Rockaway Beach saw major development after WWII as part of a city-wide project to alleviate a housing shortage. However, building cheap dense buildings close to the salty ocean resulted in Rockaway turning into an outpost for the city's neediest populations.[3][4]
- ^ "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Archived from the original on June 22, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- ^ "Chill out this summer ... on an urban beach", The Vancouver Sun, June 2, 2007. "Rockaway Beach is the largest urban beach in the States."
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/nyregion/how-new-york-citys-coastline-became-home-to-the-poor.html
- ^ Between Ocean and City, The Transformation of Rockaway, New York, by Lawrence Kaplan, Columbia University Press, 2003