Hammels, Queens

The New York City Subway's A train travels through the neighborhood on the IND Rockaway Line.

It originated as a summer community based on a series of boardwalks that ran between the Bay and Ocean shores.

The New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway Railroad ran within a few feet of the hotel as a trestle was erected across the bay in 1880.

[1] The hotel gave an easement for the construction of the Hammels station, which was used as the name for the entire community.

A dock in front of the hotel on the Bay side, known as Fifth Landing, was a regular stop for boats of the Iron Steamboat Company.