Breezy Point
Breezy Point is a cape in Queens, New York. Breezy Point is situated nearby to the neighborhood Rockaway Point, as well as near Roxbury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Plumb Beach and Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.
Plumb Beach
Park
Photo: Glenn ocean, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plumb Beach is a beach and surrounding neighborhood along the north shore of Rockaway Inlet, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is located near the neighborhoods of Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach, just off the Belt Parkway.
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
Bridge
The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge in New York City, New York, that crosses Rockaway Inlet. The bridge, which opened on July 3, 1937, connects the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, with Flatbush Avenue, in turn providing access to Floyd Bennett Field, Belt Parkway, and the Marine Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Floyd Bennett Field
Historic site
Photo: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Breezy Point and Roxbury.
Breezy Point
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
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.
Roxbury
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Roxbury is a community on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens originally settled by Irish immigrants in the early 20th century.
Manhattan Beach
Neighborhood
Photo: Multiplicitous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manhattan Beach is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, by Sheepshead Bay on the north, and Brighton Beach to the west.
Breezy Point
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.56495° or 40° 33′ 54″ northLongitude
-73.91161° or 73° 54′ 42″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
87G8H37Q+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 7520517402OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
5110072
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