Rockaway Boulevard

For the subway station, see Rockaway Boulevard station.

Rockaway Boulevard
In Springfield Gardens
In Springfield Gardens
Map
Former name(s)Rockaway Road
Rockaway Plank Road
OwnerCity of New York and State of New York (Queens portion)
County of Nassau (Nassau County portion)
Maintained byNYCDOT and NYSDOT (Queens portion)
NCDPW (Nassau County portion)
Length9.36 mi (15.06 km)[1]
LocationQueens and Nassau County, New York
Nearest metro stationRockaway Boulevard "A" train
West endEldert Lane in Woodhaven
Major
junctions		 I-678 in South Ozone Park
NY 27 / Belt Parkway in Springfield Gardens
NY 878 in Springfield Gardens
East Avenue in Meadowmere
NY 878 in Inwood
Peninsula Boulevard (CR 2) in Cedarhurst
Burnside Avenue (CR C27) / West Broadway (CR E51) in Cedarhurst
Central Avenue in Lawrence
East endBroadway (CR C22) in Lawrence

Rockaway Boulevard is a major 9.36-mile (15.06 km) road in southern Queens and Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.

Within Queens, the portions east of 182nd Street to the Queens–Nassau border are owned by the State of New York and designated as the unsigned New York State Reference Route 909G. Within Nassau County, the road is known as Rockaway Turnpike and is designated as the unsigned Nassau County Route 257.

Unlike the similarly named Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Rockaway Freeway, it serves mainland Queens and does not enter the Rockaways.[2][3]

Route description

In New York City

Rockaway Boulevard begins as an undivided road at Eldert Lane, a small one-way street that runs along the border between Queens and Brooklyn. West of Atlantic Avenue, it is a two-lane road. When it crosses Atlantic Avenue, it widens to four lanes.[2][3]

Rockaway Boulevard generally runs east-southeast. It crosses the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678) and the Belt Parkway. Just south of the parkway, the Queens (western) segment of the Nassau Expressway (NY 878) ends at Rockaway Boulevard, in a Y-shaped, at-grade junction. Rockaway Boulevard becomes a six-lane divided road at this point and continues southeast to the Queens-Nassau border, where ownership and maintenance by Nassau County begins and the road's name changes from Rockaway Boulevard to Rockaway Turnpike; this location is the western terminus of the CR 257 designation.[2][3]

In Nassau County (CR 257)

Upon entering Nassau County, the road's name changes to Rockaway Turnpike, and the Nassau County Route 257 designation begins.[2][3] It continues south-southeast through Meadowmere Park and Inwood, soon reaching an at-grade junction with the Nassau County (eastern) segment of the Nassau Expressway (NY 878), which branches away, towards Atlantic Beach.[2][3] Rockaway Turnpike then continues straight for one block, where it intersects Peninsula Boulevard (CR 2).[2][3][4]

Continuing south-southeast from Peninsula Boulevard, Rockaway Turnpike – now running along the border between the Village of Cedarhurst and the unincorporated hamlet of Inwood – eventually intersects Burnside Avenue (CR C27) and West Broadway (CR E51).[2][3] It continues straight from there – still following the Cedarhurst–Inwood border – and eventually intersects Mott Avenue and thence Pearsall Avenue, before immediately reaching a grade crossing with the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch and entering the Village of Lawrence.[2][3][5]

Upon crossing the LIRR tracks and entering Lawrence, Rockaway Turnpike continues straight and soon intersects Central Avenue, before reaching Broadway (CR C22) – the eastern terminus of both Rockaway Turnpike and the CR 257 designation.[2][3]

South of Broadway, the roadway continues east, south, and west through Lawrence as Meadow Lane (CR D51), which eventually becomes Rock Hall Road (CR D50) and ultimately ends at the Nassau Expressway (NY 878).[2][3]

History

Rockaway Boulevard and Rockaway Turnpike were formerly known as Rockaway Road (or Rockaway Plank Road) and the Jamaica and Rockaway Turnpike. The portion of Rockaway Turnpike in Queens (a separate road towards Jamaica) is now called Sutphin Boulevard.[6][7][8][9]

Parks

As Rockaway Boulevard cuts diagonally through the rectangular street grid of southeastern Queens, triangular intersections that were too small to develop were designated as parks.[10] These include Legion Triangle, Dixon Triangle, Lynch Triangle, Ruoff Triangle, Corporal Ruoff Square, Wellbrook Triangle, O'Connell Square, Catholic War Veterans Triangle, and Sergeant Colyer Square. Larger parks along the route include Playground One Forty, Baisley Pond Park, and Idlewild Park.[10]

Transportation

Rockaway Boulevard is served by the following bus routes:[11][12][13]

  • The IND Fulton Street Line (A train) of the New York City Subway has a station located at the intersection of Cross Bay, Rockaway, Woodhaven Boulevards, and Liberty Avenue.
  • The Q7 is the primary bus server of the boulevard, running west of 150th Street.[14]
  • The Q6 runs on the corridor between Sutphin Boulevard and Farmers Boulevard.[15]
  • The Q113 and Q114 run between Guy R. Brewer Boulevard and Nassau Expressway. The Q113 heads west on the expressway, while the Q114 continues on the Turnpike portion to Mott Avenue. It is joined by the n31 from West Broadway, which continues until Central Avenue.
  • The Q40 runs between 143rd and 142nd Streets.
  • Q10 buses serve the boulevard between 130th Street and Lefferts Boulevard.
  • From there, the Q37 takes over until 111th Street. Buses that serve Aqueduct Racetrack/Resorts Casino continue west until Aqueduct Road.
  • The Q41 runs between 109th Avenue and either 94th Street (Howard Beach) or Liberty Avenue (Jamaica). Westbound service is supplemented by the Q112.
  • The Q51 runs between Linden Boulevard and either Liberty Avenue (Ozone Park) or 99th Street (Cambria Heights).[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rockaway Boulevard" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "New York State Roadway Inventory System Viewer". gis.dot.ny.gov. Retrieved July 27, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "New York State Department of Transportation Functional Class Viewer". gis.dot.ny.gov. Retrieved July 28, 2025.
  4. ^ Bessen, Jeff (October 30, 2023). "Rockaway Turnpike has reopened in both directions". Herald Community Newspapers. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
  5. ^ "PSA: NYS Assemblyman Ari Brown Shares Update Regarding Rockaway Turnpike Roadwork". 5 Towns Central. July 3, 2025. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
  6. ^ New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1920). New York Legislative Documents: One Hundred and Forty-Third Session. pp. 159–161.
  7. ^ New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1913). Documents of the Senate of the State of New York. pp. 593–603.
  8. ^ Tuttle, Arthur S. (October 27, 1922). "Street System-Territory Bounded by Van Wyck Boulevard, Foc Boulevard, 140th Street, 116th Avenue, Sutphin Boulevard (Rockaway Turnpike), and 120th Avenue. Borough of Queens-Approval of Map Showing Subdivision of Private Property (Cal. No. 118)". The City Record. 50 (9–10): 6998. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  9. ^ Digital Collections, The New York Public Library. "(still image) Plate 41: Bounded by Bergen Landing Road, Rockaway Plank Road, Rockaway Turnpike, Meyer Avenue, New York Avenue, Farmers Avenue, Rockaway Plank Road, (Idlewild Park)Three Mile Road and (Richmond Hill Circle) Old South Road., (1909)". The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundation. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  10. ^ a b "Find A Park : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved September 7, 2025.
  11. ^ "Long Island Zoning Atlas". www.longislandindexmaps.org. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
  12. ^ "Nassau Inter-County Express - Maps and Schedules". www.nicebus.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  13. ^ "New York City Transit". MTA. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
  14. ^ Q7 bus schedule
  15. ^ Q6 bus schedule
  16. ^ "Queens Bus Network Redesign". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
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