Edgemere, Queens

Edgemere is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, extending from Beach 32nd to Beach 52nd Street on the Rockaway Peninsula. It contains Rockaway Community Park.^[1] Arverne is to the west, and Far Rockaway to the east. Edgemere was founded in 1892 by Frederick J. Lancaster, who originally called it New Venice.^[2] The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14.^[3]

References

↑ Rockaway Community Park NYC Parks
↑ The Rockaways. Accessed October 2, 2007. "Edgemere was developed by Frederick J. Lancaster in 1892. The area was a sandy waste, with only two or three houses and the Half-Way House. Mr. Lancaster called the place New Venice."
↑ Queens Community Boards, New York City. Accessed September 3, 2007.

Neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Queens

Addisleigh Park Arverne Astoria Auburndale Bayside Bayswater Beechhurst Belle Harbor Bellerose Boulevard Gardens Breezy Point Briarwood Broad Channel Broadway-Flushing Cambria Heights Chinatown College Point Corona Douglaston East Elmhurst Edgemere Elmhurst Far Rockaway Floral Park Flushing Forest Hills Fresh Meadows Fresh Pond Glendale Glen Oaks Hammels Hollis Howard Beach Jackson Heights Jamaica Jamaica Estates Jamaica Hills Kew Gardens Kew Gardens Hills Koreatown Laurelton LeFrak City Little Neck Locust Manor Long Island City Maspeth Middle Village Neponsit North Shore Towers Ozone Park Pomonok Queensboro Hill Queensbridge Queens Village Rego Park Richmond Hill Ridgewood Rochdale Village Rockaway Rockaway Beach Rockaway Park Rosedale Roxbury St. Albans Seaside South Jamaica Springfield Gardens Sunnyside The Hole Whitestone Willets Point Woodhaven Woodside Wyckoff Heights

Community boards: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

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