Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere

Neighborhood · Queens

Edgemere, Arverne and Rockaway Beach line the middle stretch of the Rockaway Peninsula's beachfront.

  • 1.81 square miles
  • 41,367 residents, 2020 Census
  • 292 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

Edgemere was founded in 1892 as a seaside development called New Venice, and Arverne takes its name from its developer, Remington Vernam, who signed himself R. Vernam; summer bungalows, hotels and amusements once lined the boardwalk. The rebuilt concrete boardwalk, completed in 2017 after Hurricane Sandy, now runs past the city's only legal surfing beaches, between Beach 67th and 69th Streets and between Beach 87th and 92nd Streets.

Sources: Edgemere, Queens (Wikipedia); Arverne, Queens (Wikipedia); Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk (Wikipedia); Nearly Five Years after Hurricane, the Rockaway Boardwalk is Finally Open (NY1).

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Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere borders three areas, and Beach Channel Drive holds more of its corners than any other street, 57 of 292.

Street map of Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens, outlined among Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Rockaway Community Park and Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, with its five subway stations and Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk.Far Rockaway-BayswaterBreezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel
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  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Beach 44 St lines A
  • Beach 60 St lines A
  • Beach 67 St lines A accessible
  • Beach 90 St lines A S
  • Beach 98 St lines A S

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere.

  • 5 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
  • Q52-SBS
  • Q53-SBS
  • Q109
  • Q121
  • T351
  • T354

Express bus routes

  • QM15
  • QM16
  • QM17

Safety record

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

  • 1,109 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 3.8 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 84 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 31 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
21
Accessible pedestrian signals
12
Turn calming
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
3
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 23,181 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Edgemere Avenue & Beach 47th Street, 15,645

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 41,367 residents in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, about 22,900 per square mile.

  • 15,924 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,051 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,387 residential lots hold buildings from 1970 or earlier, and 29% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Carleton Manor, Hammel and Ocean Bay Apartments (Oceanside) developments lie wholly or partly within Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, as does one more that NYCHA names by a building's address.

Parks

Parkland
259.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk (86.2 acres), Rockaway Beach Boardwalk (65.2 acres) and Arverne East Nature Preserve (32.9 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,033 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Callery pear and Japanese flowering cherry
Street with the most corners
Beach Channel Drive, with 57 of the area's 292
Height above sea level
From 3 feet at Thursby Avenue & Beach 66th Street to 20 feet at Beach 67th Street & Boardwalk
Honorary street names
10 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists ten schools and two libraries in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere.

Public schools
8
Charter and private schools
2
Libraries
Arverne Library and Peninsula Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere: Rockaway Veterans Memorial (1927).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 341 major felonies at places in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere

  • 411 major felonies in 2024 70 fewer in 2025
  • 2,274 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, the NYPD recorded another 25 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere.

Police precincts
100th (most of the area), 101st
Major felonies recorded at places in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 169 major felonies at places in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, against 175 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.