Rockaway Park

The area is on the Rockaway Peninsula, nestled between Jamaica Bay to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.

The neighborhood of Rockaway Beach lies on its eastern border while the community of Belle Harbor is situated on its western side.

[3] The 2000 United States census showed that 36.0% of the population were of Irish ancestry in the ZCTA for ZIP Code 11694.

[6] At the street's northern end is Tribute Park, which has a memorial to the 343 firefighters killed in the September 11 attacks,[7] and at its southern tip is a memorial to the 265 victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed nearby in Belle Harbor on November 12, 2001.

It goes through Belle Harbor, Neponsit, and Jacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula.