THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 45: BREEZY POINT & BROAD CHANNEL

Breezy Point is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula, between Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south. The community is run by the Breezy Point Cooperative, in which all residents pay the maintenance, security, and community-oriented costs involved with keeping the community private. The cooperative owns the entire 500-acre (2 km2) community; residents own their homes and hold shares in the cooperative.[2]
The New York Times described Breezy Point as consisting of "three small neighborhoods:"[3] Rockaway Point, Roxbury, and namesake Breezy Point, and that Rockaway Point Boulevard "runs between the sections."
It is less urbanized than most of the rest of New York City, and it is part of Queens Community District 14.[1] Breezy Point is patrolled by the 100th Precinct of the New York City Police Department;[4] its ZIP Code is 11697.
Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It occupies the southern portion of Rulers Bar Hassock (known colloquially as "Broad Channel Island"), the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay.
The neighborhood stands on Big Egg Marsh, an area of fill approximately 20 blocks long and 4 blocks wide at the south end of Rulers Bar Hassock. The community is an inholding within the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. National Park Service as part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. The area comprises several artificial canals separating dead-end residential blocks. It is connected to the rest of Queens by road and subway bridges.
Broad Channel is located in Queens Community District 14 and its ZIP Code is 11693.[1] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 100th Precinct.

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