The Raunt was a former Long Island Rail Road station on the Rockaway Beach Branch.

It had no address and no station house, because it was meant strictly as a dropping-off point for fishermen using a small island in Jamaica Bay.

[2] The Raunt station opened in 1888 by the New York and Rockaway Beach Railway.

[5][6] The Jamaica Bay Trestle was prone to fires, but The Raunt was the source of a May 7–8, 1950 fire that broke out between here and Broad Channel, destroyed the bridge over Jamaica Bay and thus doomed the entire line.

The Broad Channel station was replaced in 1956 as a New York City Subway station, but the small community at The Raunt was ordered demolished by New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses and became part of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.