Far Rockaway, Queens
Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood starts at the Nassau County line and extends west to Beach 32nd Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14.[1] The name "Rockaway" may have meant "place of sands" in the Munsee language of the Native American Lenape. Other spellings include Requarkie, Rechouwakie, Rechaweygh, Rechquaakie and Reckowacky (see: Toponymy of New Netherland).
Far Rockaway, Queens Media
Grand View Avenue in the 1910s
Rooftop view of Far Rockaway
Looking east from Beach 48th Street at location of former bungalows cleared for a development project
Looking northeast along B22nd Street at the terminal station on the Far Rockaway subway viaduct on a sunny early afternoon.
References
- ↑ Queens Community Boards Archived 2013-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, New York City. Accessed December 1, 2014.