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Arverne extends from Beach 54th Street to Beach 79th Street, along its main thoroughfare Beach Channel Drive, alternatively known as Rev. Joseph H. May Drive. Arverne is located in Queens Community District 14 and its ZIP Code is 11692. [1] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 100th Precinct.
The Beach 67th Street station (signed as Beach 67th Street–Arverne By The Sea) is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway.Located at Beach 67th Street and Rockaway Freeway in Arverne, Queens, it is served by the A train at all times.
The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is a peninsula at the southern edge of the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York. Relatively isolated from Manhattan and other more urban parts of the city, Rockaway became a popular summer retreat in the 1830s.
Arverne is to the west, and Far Rockaway to the east. Edgemere was founded in 1892 by Frederick J. Lancaster, who originally called it New Venice. [5] [3] Edgemere is located in Queens Community District 14 and its ZIP Code is 11691. [2] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 101st Precinct.
The district overlaps with Queens Community Boards 12, 13, and 14, and is contained entirely within New York's 5th congressional district. It also overlaps with the 10th, 14th, and 15th districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 23rd, 29th, 31st, and 32nd districts of the New York State Assembly. [5]
A 13-year-old girl has been arrested in connection with the fatal assault of a cab driver in New York City earlier ... corner of Beach 54 Street and Arverne Boulevard just before 6:30 a.m. and ...
The neighborhood, like all of New York City, is served by the New York City Department of Education. Rockaway Beach residents are zoned to either P.S. 183, an elementary school, [24] or P.S. 225, a middle school. [25] Additionally, the community contains two private Catholic elementary schools: St. Camillus [26] and St. Rose of Lima. [27]
In 1898, the area was incorporated into the City of Greater New York and became part of Queens. The neighborhoods of Far Rockaway, Hammels, and Arverne in Queens tried to secede from the city several times. In 1915 and 1917, a bill approving secession passed in the legislature but was vetoed by the New York City mayor John Purroy Mitchel. [7]