Far Rockaway, Queens "Far Rockaway"

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Far Rockaway Far Rockaway street scene Far Rockaway street scene Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.

The name Reckowacky, which is also spelled Requarkie, Rechouwakie, Rechaweygh, or Rechquaakie,[note 1] was to distinguish the Rockaway village from other Mohawk Nation villages; "Reckowacky" means "lonely place", or "place of waters bright". By 1639, the Mohegan tribe sold most of the Rockaways to the Dutch West India Company.

Cornell and his family lived on a homestead on Central Avenue, near the Atlantic Ocean shore; upon his death, Cornell was buried in a small family cemetery, Cornell Cemetery, which is the only designated New York City landmark in the Rockaways. The Rockaway Association wanted to build a hotel on the Rockaway peninsula.

The Rockaway Association also assembled the Rockaway Turnpike.

By the 1880s, the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach Branch was assembled from Far Rockaway station. The steam barns went to Long Island City and Flatbush Terminal (now Atlantic Terminal), which facilitated populace growth on the Rockaway Peninsula when it opened in the 1880s. Benjamin Mott gave the LIRR 7 acres (2.8 ha) of territory for a barns depot.

Land values increased and businesses in the region grew, and by 1888, Far Rockaway was a mostly large village. It incorporated as a village on September 19 of that year. Far Rockaway, Hammels, and Arverne tried to secede from the town/city several times.

In addition to the Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District, the Russell Sage Memorial Church, Trinity Chapel, and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Main article: Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District The close-by beach made Far Rockaway an attractive destination for tourists and vacationers from the other boroughs.

Bungalows were the homes of choice for many inhabitants of the improve who lived in Far Rockaway.

Much of the housing was converted into year-round housing for low-income residents, and some bungalows used as enhance housing. The 1970s New York City budget crisis had a negative impact on civil services. which negatively affected the Far Rockaway. The Beachside Bungalow Preservation Association was created in September 1984, to "improve the character of the Far Rockaway improve through preservation, education, and cultural programs." The IND Rockaway Line subway viaduct on a background of Far Rockaway residentiary buildings Far Rockaway is served by the following transit services: The New York City Subway's IND Rockaway Line (A train), which has a terminal at Mott Avenue. The Far Rockaway terminal station for the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch. The branch had originally been part of a loop that traveled along the existing route, closing through the Rockaway Peninsula and heading on a trestle athwart Jamaica Bay through Queens where it reconnected with other chapters.

Frequent fires and maintenance enigma led the LIRR to abandon the Queens portion of the route, which was acquired by the town/city to turn into the IND Rockaway Line. Nassau Inter-County Express: n31, n32, n33. Unlike other NICE routes in Queens, these buses operate open-door in Far Rockaway, meaning customers can ride these buses wholly inside the neighborhood without necessarily going to Nassau County.

The neighborhood, like all of New York City, is served by the New York City Department of Education.

Far Rockaway inhabitants are zoned to a several different elementary schools: Far Rockaway inhabitants are zoned to I.S.

All New York City inhabitants who wish to attend a enhance high school must apply to high schools.

Far Rockaway High School was positioned in Far Rockaway, but was shut down as a stand-alone institution in 2011, as happened to many large underperforming, older traditional high schools in the town/city during the administration of then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The 1929 building remains extant and has been repurposed as the Far Rockaway Educational Campus, home to a number of smaller, specialized academies who share the building.

The former Beach Channel High School -- which was similarly closed as a stand-alone institution in 2014 and repurposed to home a several smaller, specialized academies -- is in Rockaway Park, near Far Rockaway, and draws some of its students from Far Rockaway.

Nikitas Language Abroad Schools, a series of language schools, is also positioned in Far Rockaway.

Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Congregation Kneseth Israel in Far Rockaway Young Israel of Far Rockaway Richard Bey (born 1951), talk show host; went to Far Rockaway High School. Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925 2011), winner of 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine; graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1942. Mac De - Marco (born 1990), Canadian songwriter and musician; has a home in Far Rockaway, where his album Another One was recorded. Richard Feynman (1918 1988), physicist and Nobel Prize winner; interval up in Far Rockaway and graduated from Far Rockaway High School. Carl Icahn (born 1936), businessman and philanthropist; interval up in Far Rockaway and went to Far Rockaway High School. Bernard Madoff (born 1938), former American stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier who was convicted of fraud; went to Far Rockaway High School. Alice Nielsen (1872 1943), Broadway performer and operatic soprano; owned a home in Far Rockaway in the 1920s. Burton Richter (born 1931), winner of 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics; graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1948. Queens Community Boards, New York City.

"The Dean Georges Collection: Far Rockaway, Edgemer, Arverne".

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"MTA Neighborhood Maps: Rockaways" (PDF).

IND Rockaway Branch/Jamaica Bay Crossing, accessed June 14, 2006.

Newsday - The Long Island and New York City News Source.

The daughter of lawyers, Joyce Diane Bauer was born in Manhattan and raised in Far Rockaway, Queens.

On May 6, 2000, the Far Rockaway, NY native earned her degree from Old Dominion University in interdisciplinary studies.

But Madden was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, where his family is from, and his corporate command posts are in a huge, Tudor-style building in Long Island City not far from the Queensboro Bridge.

"BURTON RICHTER was born in Brooklyn 55 years ago, but interval up in Far Rockaway, Queens." I interval up in Far Rockaway, and you'd always see shoes on the line.

Raymond Smullyan, known as Ray, was brought up in Far Rockaway in New York City.

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