Rockaway Peninsula

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Rockaway Peninsula
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Rockaway Peninsula - the southwest tip of Long Island from the air
Geographical location
Rockaway Peninsula (New York City)
Rockaway Peninsula
Coordinates 40 ° 34 '31 "  N , 73 ° 51' 2"  W Coordinates: 40 ° 34 '31 "  N , 73 ° 51' 2"  W.
Waters 1 Atlantic Ocean
Waters 2 Jamaica Bay

The Rockaway Peninsula (also called The Rockaways ) is a narrow, elongated peninsula in the New York borough of Queens , which separates the bodden-like Jamaica Bay from the Atlantic . The western tip of the peninsula forms the eastern edge of Lower New York Bay .

Rockaway is home to several residential areas such as Far Rockaway with Rockaway Beach , a popular beach for New Yorkers on the Atlantic. To the east of the peninsula comes as part of Queens County , at the Nassau County , where the coast following Hempstead and Long Beach connect. It is part of the island of Long Island , which belongs entirely to the US state of New York .

literature

  • Lawrence Kaplan, Carol P. Kaplan: Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York. Columbia University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-231-12848-3 .

Web links

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