* Queens ( 5 ) – West Hamilton Beach VFD, Broad Channel VFD, Roxbury VFD, Rockaway Point VFD, and Point Breeze VFD

From November 26, 1967 to September 10, 1972, it was colored red, with daytime non-rush hour and weekend service usually available between Rockaway Park and Euclid Avenue or Broad Channel, plus some weekday mid-afternoon service provided between Far Rockaway and Euclid Avenue.

Rockaway Park Shuttle train of R46 ( New York City Subway car ) | R46 s at Broad Channel ( IND Rockaway Line ) | Broad Channel.

The Rockaway Park Shuttle now ran between Rockaway Park and Broad Channel at all times.

* Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge ( Queens — Broad Channel and the Rockaway Peninsula )

At all times, a shuttle train ( S – Rockaway Park Shuttle ) operates between Beach 116th Street and Broad Channel.

Thus, Broad Street and Fulton Street are two of the five stations that are not served full-time ( the others being the two stations of the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, and the seasonal Aqueduct Racetrack station on the IND Rockaway Line ).

The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge ( originally Cross Bay Bridge or Cross Bay Parkway Bridge ) in New York City, is a toll bridge that carries Cross Bay Boulevard from Broad Channel in Jamaica Bay to the Rockaway Peninsula, and is located in Queens.

The IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway ( trains ) serves the Broad Channel station.

John P. Maloney, St. Virgilius Parish of Broad Channel merges with St. Camillus Parish of Rockaway Park, New York.

On summer weekends during the 1950s and 1960s, the FDNY would send Rockaway Eng Co. # 267 to the Broad Channel Volunteers quarters to assist in answering alarms on the island.

Following the construction of the Cross Bay Parkway bridge in 1939, a drawbridge connecting Broad Channel With the Rockaway Peninsula, the island became easily accessible by car.

* May 7 – 8 Long Island Rail Road's Jamaica Bay Trestle erupts in a major fire between The Raunt and Broad Channel stations, destroying the bridge over Jamaica Bay, and leading to the eventual decline of the Rockaway Beach Branch five years later.

While the Rockaway Line is a long and substantial line, it consists mostly of a long right-of-way crossing Jamaica Bay with a single station on Broad Channel island and two branches on a peninsula that is only several city blocks wide.

On June 27, 1955 the station along with the rest of the Rockaway Beach Branch was taken out of service due to the May 7 – 8, 1950 fire that broke out between The Raunt and Broad Channel stations destroying the bridge over Jamaica Bay, and acquired by the New York City Transit Authority.

Beach Channel High School is near Far Rockaway.

There are no high schools within the community's boundaries but nearby high schools include Far Rockaway High School, Scholars ' Academy, which also contains middle school grades, and Beach Channel High School, all located on the Rockaway Peninsula.

* Beach 41st Street-Beach Channel Drive Houses ( Far Rockaway / 101 )

Notable current and former residents of Rockaway include:

Notable current and former residents of Rockaway Township include:

Its original settlers were Jamaica Bay fishermen, generally lawless and troublesome to other Rockaway residents.

Far Rockaway residents are zoned to several different elementary schools:

Far Rockaway residents are zoned to I. S.

A larger shopping area used by some residents of Belle Harbor is located on Beach 116th Street in the neighborhood of Rockaway Park, east of Belle Harbor on the Rockaway Peninsula.

The Rockaway River flows through the downtown section and forms a spectacular short gorge with impressive whitewater rapids including a high waterfall.

The Boonton Iron Works were founded about 1770 by Samuel Ogden who, with others in his family, purchased a tract along the Rockaway River.

James Bollen, whose bordering " plantation " stretching south toward the Tourne was described as " situate on the fork of Rockaway with an Indian plantation in it ," mapped his < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 1, 507 acres ( 6 km² )</ span > in 1715.

* Rockaway Townsquare Mall, a high-end mall anchored by J. C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, & Sears with a gross leasable area of, placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey.

The Lawrence station provides Long Island Rail Road service on the Far Rockaway Branch to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn with connections at Jamaica to other parts of Long Island.

The n31 and n32 buses of Nassau Inter-County Express run down Central Avenue extending southwest into Far Rockaway ( with a connection to the Line of the New York City Subway ) and northeast to the Hempstead Transit Center in central Nassau County with connections to other parts of Long Island.

Malverne was originally settled by the Rockaway Indians at an unknown point in history with the current Ocean Avenue serving as an Indian path.

Representatives of the Marsapeague ( Massapequa ), Mericock ( Merrick ), Matinecock and Rekowake ( Rockaway ) tribes met with the two men at a site slightly west of the current Denton Green in Hempstead Village.

The bay connects with Lower New York Bay to the west through Rockaway Inlet and is the westernmost of the coastal lagoons on the south shore of Long Island.

The bay communicates with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean via Rockaway Inlet, a high current area that is wide at its narrowest point, with an average depth of.

US 46 continues east, entering Rockaway Township, where there is an intersection with CR 513.

This shuttle train provides service to the western part of the Rockaway peninsula, with a terminus at Rockaway Park – Beach 116th Street.

Prior to 1990, late night service went to Lefferts Boulevard with no service to Far Rockaway.

Commander Albert Cushing Read, who flew from Naval Air Station Rockaway, New York to Plymouth with a crew of five, over 23 days, with six stops along the way.

In 1990, this pattern was switched, with late-night A service running to Far Rockaway only.

On April 9, 1936 the Fulton Street Line opened from Court Street to Rockaway Avenue, along with connecting tracks from Jay Street.

The Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in New York City ( originally Marine Parkway Bridge ) is a vertical lift bridge that crosses Rockaway Inlet and connects the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, with Marine Parkway to Floyd Bennett Field, Flatbush Avenue, and the Marine Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Rockaway Inlet is a strait connecting Jamaica Bay, wholly within New York City, with the Atlantic Ocean.