Veterans Park

Veterans Park is a park in Queens, New York. Veterans Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Somerville, as well as near Hammel.

Type: Park
Description: park in Queens County, New York, United States of America
Also known as: “Broad Channel Memorial Park” and “Broad Channel Veteran’s Park”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Broad Channel station and Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge.

Broad Channel station

Metro station

Photo: Pacific Coast Highway, Public domain.

The Broad Channel station is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located in the neighborhood of the same name at Noel and West Roads in the borough of Queens.

Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.

The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge is a toll bridge that carries Cross Bay Boulevard across Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York City, between Broad Channel and the Rockaway Peninsula.

Beach 90th Street station

Metro station

Photo: Shapiros10, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Beach 90th Street station is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and ten daily rush-hour only A trains. Beach 90th Street station is situated 1½ miles south of Veterans Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Broad Channel and Hammel.

Broad Channel

Neighborhood

Photo: DoomDan515, Public domain.

Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It occupies Rulers Bar Hassock, the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay.

Hammel

Neighborhood

Photo: Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hammels is an area within Rockaway Beach on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located west of Arverne and east of Seaside, and is centered on Beach 84th Street. Hammel is situated 1½ miles south of Veterans Park.

Ocean Breeze

Neighborhood

South Beach is a neighborhood on the East Shore of Staten Island, New York City, situated directly south of the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge. South Beach is bounded by New York Bay on the southeast, Seaview Avenue on the southwest, Laconia Avenue on the northwest, Reid and McClean Avenues on the north, and Lily Pond Avenue on the northeast. Ocean Breeze is situated 1½ miles south of Veterans Park.

Veterans Park

Category: recreation area
Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.61098° or 40° 36′ 40″ north

Longitude

-73.81888° or 73° 49′ 8″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Operator

New York City Department of Parks and Recreaton

Open location code

87G8J56J+9C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 507823973

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

6348505

Wikidata ID

Q49574842

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Veterans Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Veterans Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, New York, Queens County)”
Cebuano: “Veterans Park”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Goose Pond Marsh and Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department.

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