Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip

Park · Queens

On the Rockaway Peninsula, Jacob Riis Park, Fort Tilden and Breezy Point Tip all belong to Gateway National Recreation Area, created in 1972 and run by the National Park Service.

  • 1.89 square miles
  • 23 street corners
  • 2 bus routes

The city bought the Riis Park site in 1912 and later named it for the journalist and activist Jacob Riis; its bathhouse dates from 1932. Fort Tilden, a onetime military site facing the entrance to New York Harbor, keeps dunes, maritime forest, coastal defense batteries and a Nike missile launch site, while Breezy Point Tip offers ocean beach, marshland and breeding grounds for birds such as the piping plover and least tern.

Sources: Jacob Riis Park - Gateway National Recreation Area (National Park Service); Jacob Riis Park (The Cultural Landscape Foundation); Fort Tilden - Gateway National Recreation Area (National Park Service); Breezy Point, Queens (Wikipedia).

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Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip borders one area, and Beach Channel Drive and Heinzelman Road hold more of its corners than any other street, five each of 23.

Street map of Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip, Queens, outlined among Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, with its paths and the streets around it.Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel
  • Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on two routes stop in or at the edge of Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip.

  • 1 local bus route
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus route

  • Q35

Express bus route

  • QM16

Safety record

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

  • 7 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 0.3 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 17 corners with a clean record

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks

Parkland
0.6 acre of Rockaway Beach, as NYC Parks maps it within Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip

Streets and trees

Trees
113 in NYC Parks' records, most often Chinese juniper, Kentucky coffeetree and lagerstroemia
Street with the most corners
Beach Channel Drive, with five of the area's 23
Height above sea level
From 7 feet at Range Road & Center Road to 32 feet at Beach Channel Drive & Marine Parkway Bridge

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.