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The IND Rockaway Line parallels the boulevard east, between Beach 90th and Beach 116th Streets. The Q22 runs on the boulevard west of Beach 73rd Street, with Rockaway Park-bound service heading north on Beach 108th Street. The Q52 SBS and Q53 SBS run between Cross Bay Parkway and Beach 73rd and Beach 116th Streets, respectively. Woodside-bound ...
Rockaway Beach in the 1880s, with new railroad and resort hotel. What is now Rockaway Beach was formerly two different hamlets, Holland and Hammels. In 1857, Michael P. Holland had purchased land and named the area after himself. Soon afterward, Louis Hammel, an immigrant from Germany, bought a tract of land just east of Holland.
The Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk is a public park in Rockaway, Queens, New York, composed of the 170-acre (69 ha) Rockaway Beach and the adjacent 5.5-mile (8.9 km) Rockaway Boardwalk. The beach runs from Beach 9th Street in Far Rockaway to Beach 149th Street in Neponsit , a distance of 7 miles (11 km).
Rockaways Playland, Car Ride, 1977. Rockaways' Playland was an amusement park that operated from 1902 to 1987 in Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York City.Bounded by Beach 97th and Beach 98th Streets between Rockaway Beach Boulevard and the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, Rockaways' Playland was created in 1902 by roller coaster designer LaMarcus Adna Thompson.
Rockaway Boulevard is a major road in the New York City borough of Queens. Unlike the similarly named Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Rockaway Freeway , it serves mainland Queens and does not enter the Rockaways .
A sign announcing Rockaway Line services effective June 28, 1956, when Rockaway Line subway service began. The Rockaway Shuttle started operating on June 28, 1956. During its early years, it essentially provided non-rush hour and weekend service between Euclid Avenue and either Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue or Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street.
On April 9, 2017, it was extended from Beach 69th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard to Beach 54th Street and Beach Channel Drive to better serve housing in Arverne. [285] [286] Route converted into Select Bus Service on November 12, 2017. [287]
Beach Channel Drive is the main thoroughfare of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It extends from the Nassau County border at Inwood westward, to the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge at the end of Jacob Riis Park .