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#RockawayBeach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the #NewYorkCity borough of Queens. The neighborhood is bounded by Arverne to the east and Rockaway Park to the westward. It is named for the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, which is the largest urban beach in the United States, stretching from Beach 3rd to Beach 153rd Streets on the Atlantic Ocean. The neighborhood, with 13,000 residents as of 2010, is also known as the “Irish Riviera” because of its large Irish American population.

What is now Rockaway Beach was formerly 2 different hamlets, The Netherlands and Hammels. In 1857, Michael P. The Netherlands had purchased land and named the area after himself. Soon afterward, Louis Hammel, an immigrant from Federal Republic of Germany, bought a tract of land just east of The Netherlands. In 1878, he decided to give portions of his land to the New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad in order to build a railroad station for the peninsula. The area around it became collectively known as “Hammels”. On June 11, 1897, Hammels merged with The Netherlands and they incorporated as the hamlet of Rockaway Beach. One twelvemonth later, it was incorporated into the City of Greater New York and became part of the newly formed borough of Queens. However, the neighborhood, along with the eastern communities of Arverne and Far Rockaway, tried to secede from the city several times. In 1915 and 1917, a bill approving the secession passed in the legislature but was vetoed by the mayor at the time, John Purroy Mitchel.

In the early 1900s, the newly built railroad station opened upward the community and the rest of the peninsula to a broad range of the population. The wealthy no longer had a monopoly on the peninsula, as various amusement parks, stores, and resort hotels attracted people from all over the city to spend a day or a whole summer at that place. Much of the area was developed by James S. Remsen and William Wainwright. In this era, it became known as “New York’s Playground”.

Rockaway’s famous amusement park, Rockaways’ Playland, was built in 1901 and quickly became a major attraction for people around the region. With its growing popularity, concern over swimming etiquette became a problem and early in 1904, the Captain of the NYPD, Louis Kreuscher, issued rules for those using the beach, censoring the bathing suits to be worn, where photographs could be taken, and specifying that women in bathing suits were not allowed to leave the beachfront.

The park was grand for its time. One of its most popular attractions, the Atom Smasher roller coaster, would be featured in the beginning of This is Cinerama, a pre-IMAX type movie, in 1952. An Olympic-size swimming pool and a million-dollar midway also were built within the amusement park; they would serve the community for over eighty years.

The Temple of State of Israel Synagogue was built in 1921, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

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