Breezy Point, Queens

Breezy Point
Breezy Point Shopping Center
Breezy Point Shopping Center
Nicknames: 
Irish Riviera, Cois Farraige
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Location within New York City
Coordinates: 40°33′18″N 73°55′30″W / 40.555°N 73.925°W / 40.555; -73.925
Country United States
State New York
City New York City
County/Borough Queens
Community DistrictQueens 14[1]
Area
 • Total
0.78 sq mi (2.0 km2)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total
4,079
Ethnicity
 • White98.2%
 • Black0.1%
 • Hispanic1.2%
 • Asian0.6%
 • Other0.1%
Economics
 • Median income$86,941
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Code
11697
Area codes718, 347, 929, and 917
Websitebreezypointcoop.org

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.

  1. ^ a b "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Sciolino, Elaine. "A Cooperative on the Beach Loves Privacy", The New York Times, September 10, 1984. Accessed November 21, 2007.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference RockawayPoint.NYT2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "NYPD – 100th Precinct". www.nyc.gov. New York City Police Department. Retrieved October 3, 2016.