Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel

Neighborhood · Queens

Rockaway Park, Belle Harbor, Neponsit and the Breezy Point communities occupy the western Rockaway Peninsula, and the area also takes in Broad Channel in Jamaica Bay.

  • 2.48 square miles
  • 24,134 residents, 2020 Census
  • 429 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

Belle Harbor's house lots were auctioned in 1915, and Breezy Point, which began with summer beach bungalows in the early 1900s, is now owned and run by a cooperative of its residents. Broad Channel, on the bay's only inhabited island, saw fishing villages grow up after the Long Island Rail Road built its trestle across the water in 1880, and it is now surrounded by the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

Sources: Breezy Point, Queens (Wikipedia); Belle Harbor, Queens (Wikipedia); Broad Channel, Queens (Wikipedia); The Irish in the Rockaways (Terrence Flynn Sr.) (New York Irish History Roundtable).

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Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel borders three areas, and Rockaway Beach Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 45 of 429.

Street map of Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens, outlined among Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip, Jamaica Bay (East) and Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, with its three subway stations and Rockaway Beach.Rockaway Beach-Arverne-EdgemereJacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Broad Channel lines A S
  • Beach 105 St lines A S
  • Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St lines A S accessible

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 8 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q11
  • Q22
  • Q35
  • Q52-SBS
  • Q53-SBS
  • Q109
  • Q121
  • T351

Express bus routes

  • QM15
  • QM16
  • QM17

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 463 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 1.1 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 287 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at ten of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
6
Leading pedestrian intervals
5
Safety Improvement Projects
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 17,723 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 35,696 school-zone speed camera tickets at 12 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 140th Street, 12,885
Most speed tickets
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 135th Street, 15,494

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 24,134 residents in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, about 9,700 per square mile.

  • 11,731 homes, 2020 Census
  • 674 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,183 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 63% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
156.9 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Rockaway Beach (41.6 acres), Rockaway Beach (37.2 acres) and Broad Channel Wetlands (20.8 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,832 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Callery pear and Japanese flowering cherry
Street with the most corners
Rockaway Beach Boulevard, with 45 of the area's 429
Height above sea level
From 3 feet at Bayside & Bayview Walk to 18 feet at Boardwalk & Beach 108th Street Greenway
Honorary street names
18 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists eight schools and three libraries in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
3
Libraries
Breezy Point Mobile Library, Broad Channel Library and Seaside Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel: Rockaway Mosaic (1981) and Flight 587 Memorial (2006).

  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 141 major felonies at places in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel

  • 152 major felonies in 2024
  • 658 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025
Police precinct
100th
Major felonies recorded at places in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 58 major felonies at places in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, against 57 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.