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The popularity of the area also suffered after the railroad abandoned the Rockaway Beach Branch in 1950, making travel to the Rockaway Peninsula far less convenient to people from other parts of New York City. Much of the housing in the area was converted into year-round housing for low-income residents, and some of the bungalows were used as ...
Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the eastern part of the Rockaway peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens.It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood extends from Beach 32nd Street east to the Nassau County line.
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Rockaway is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 6,598, [10] [11] an increase of 160 (+2.5%) from the 2010 census count of 6,438, [20] [21] which in turn reflected a decline of 35 (−0.5%) from the 6,473 counted in the 2000 census.
What is now the site of Jacob Riis Park on the western Rockaway Peninsula was under water as recently as the early 19th century. The peninsula was gradually expanded westward by the natural accretion of sand from tidal action. By 1878, the peninsula extended as far as the current western boundaries of the park.