Breezy Point, Queens
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}}Template:Main other 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 Template:Convert community; residents own their homes and hold shares in the cooperative.<ref name="Sciolino">Sciolino, Elaine. "A Cooperative on the Beach Loves Privacy", The New York Times, September 10, 1984. Accessed November 21, 2007.</ref>
The New York Times described Breezy Point as consisting of "three small neighborhoods:"<ref name=RockawayPoint.NYT2017/> 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.<ref name="NYCPlanning"/> Breezy Point is patrolled by the 100th Precinct of the New York City Police Department;<ref name="NYPD 100th Precinct">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> its ZIP Code is 11697.
GeographyEdit
Breezy Point's three neighborhoods are:<ref name=RockawayPoint.NYT2017>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Breezy Point, west of Ocean Avenue near the tip of the peninsula
- Template:Visible anchor, between Ocean Avenue and Beach 201st Street, and
- Roxbury, about a mile east, near the Marine Parkway Bridge leading to Brooklyn.
Breezy Point Tip, to the west of the community, is part of Gateway National Recreation Area, which is run by the National Park Service. This isolated, Template:Convert area includes an ocean-facing beach, a shoreline on Jamaica Bay, sand dunes, and marshland. It is a breeding spot for the piping plover, least tern, black skimmer, American oystercatcher and common tern.<ref>Breezy Point Template:Webarchive Brooklyn Bird Club, Accessed November 24, 2008.</ref>
DemographicsEdit
Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of the combined area of Breezy Point/Belle Harbor/Rockaway Park/Broad Channel was 28,018, an increase of 1,307 (4.9%) from the 26,711 counted in 2000. Covering an area of Template:Convert, the four neighborhoods had a population density of Template:Convert.<ref>Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed July 16, 2016.</ref>
The racial makeup of the neighborhoods was 78.3% (21,946) White, 7.5% (2,095) African American, 0.1% (29) Native American, 2.1% (595) Asian, 0.0% (8) Pacific Islander, 0.2% (66) from other races, and 0.9% (259) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.8% (3,020) of the population.<ref>Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed July 16, 2016.</ref>
However, according to the United States Census Bureau, the community's ZIP Code (11697) is 98.2% white and has the nation's 2nd highest concentration of Irish-Americans, at 60.3% as of the United States Census, 2000 (Squantum, in Quincy, Massachusetts, is number 1, at 65%).<ref name="2000Census">QT-P13. Ancestry: 2000 for 11697 5-Digit ZCTA Template:Webarchive, United States Census Bureau. Accessed October 2, 2007.</ref> The community's demographics are maintained as a result of a Cooperative rule that a person, prior to buying a house, must be recommended by three members of the Cooperative and approved by its board of directors.<ref name="Sciolino"/><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Breezy Point functions mainly as a summer get-away for many residents of New York. Estimates put summer residency at 12,000, while year-round residency was 4,337 in the most recent Census.<ref name=2000Census/>
Due to its history of population by Irish-Americans, Breezy Point has been called the "Irish Riviera." Since the mid-1990s, Italians and Jews have also moved into Breezy Point, making the concentration of Irish-Americans drop.<ref name="Herszenhorn">Herszenhorn, David M. "THE CENSUS – A Region of Enclaves: Breezy Point, Queens; Bounded by Gates, Over a Toll Bridge", The New York Times, June 18, 2001. Accessed November 1, 2007. "The neighborhood, started in the early 1900s as a summer bungalow community and called the Irish Riviera..."</ref>
HistoryEdit
The community began as summer beach bungalows, in the "early 1900s", according to the New York Times although this is impossible because at the time the shoreline was further east until landfill extended the Rockaways.<ref name="Herszenhorn" /> Breezy Point was sold to the Atlantic Improvement State Corporation for $17 million in 1960. The residents of the community purchased half of the land for approximately $11 million and formed the Breezy Point Cooperative. Today, it consists of about 3,500 homes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The construction of apartment buildings commenced in the late 1960s and was halted by City ordinance.<ref>Documerica 1973, The Atlantic Magazine</ref>
Breezy Point is patrolled by its own private security force that restricts access to owners, renters and their guests. It also features three of New York City's nine remaining volunteer fire departments.<ref>Hamill, Denis. "Brave firehouse heroes get my vote"Template:Dead link, New York Daily News, April 26, 2007. Accessed September 8, 2008.</ref>
On September 8, 2012, the community was struck by a tornado shortly before 11 a.m. that started as a waterspout over the Atlantic Ocean and came ashore at the Breezy Point Surf Club.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Hurricane Sandy and subsequent fireEdit
Template:AnchorOn October 29, 2012, Breezy Point was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean flooded the land between these bodies of water. Most Breezy Point homes were damaged or destroyed by high water, and basements and vehicles were ruined.<ref name="seattlepl">Template:Cite news</ref> That night, a six-alarm fire arose at 173 Ocean Avenue. Local volunteer firefighters were trapped in place for several hours due to the flooding. Once the waters receded, the Rockaway Point Fire Department rescued more than 41 civilians, while the New York City, Point Breeze, and Roxbury Fire Departments found 130 homes burned to the ground.<ref>Superstorm Sandy's toll: Mounting deaths, historic destruction, stranded residents CNN. 30 October 2012.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nearby, another 50 homes were damaged by the fire.<ref name="seattlepl" /> According to an official report in December, rising seawater caused the fire by contacting a house's electrical wires.<ref>Cause of Breezy Point Fire During Sandy Determined: City Fire Marshals say that rising sea water came in contact with electrical wires WNBC News, Dec 24, 2012</ref>
Historical noteEdit
A New York Times 1940 headline said: New Coast Guard Station: Work starts on $119,975 unit on Rockaway Point<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In actuality, this marked work on what was named "Station Rockaway Point, New York".<ref name=Rpoint2.gov>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>It was a Coast Guard station that, although built in 1856, was renamed in 1883, relocated in 1913, and in 1923 recorded as "on Rockaway Beach, two and one-half miles east of Rockaway Point." The 1940 headline referred to fixup work at the non-Rockaway Point location.</ref> Closure was announced May 2003.<ref>Agenda: "consolidating .. to complete this .. the one USCG small boat assigned at Rockaway would be moved to Staten Island .. close Station Rockaway and transfer ownership .. to the NPS ... continue routine patrols of .. area waters. {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
EcologyEdit
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According to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, beaches on the Breezy Point peninsula are home to one of the most diverse breeding shorebird areas in the Metropolitan area. Shorebirds that breed here include:
- The piping plover, federally designated as threatened
- The Migratory Bird Treaty Act-protected American oystercatcher
- The New York State Species of Special Concern, black skimmer
- The common tern, designated threatened in New York State
- The least tern, designated threatened in New York State
The beaches in Breezy Point Tip are owned by the federal government and are federally and state-protected areas in which development is extremely limited. The beaches in Breezy Point are owned by the Breezy Point Cooperative as a consequence of litigation with the federal government in the 1980s.
EducationEdit
Breezy Point residents are zoned for schools in the New York City Department of Education, which operates PS/MS 114 Belle Harbor School for grades K-8.<ref>Home. PS/MS 114 Belle Harbor School. Retrieved on September 16, 2017. Template:Webarchive</ref>
Notable residentsEdit
Notable current and former residents of Breezy Point include:<section begin=notable_residents/>
- Hugh Carey (1919–2011), 51st Governor of New York, was a resident during the time he served in Congress.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Harry J. Donnelly (1922–1989), politician who served two terms in the New York State Assembly.<ref>"Harry J. Donnelly, 68, Ex-Justice in New York", The New York Times, May 21, 1989. Accessed October 11, 2021. "Harry J. Donnelly a retired acting justice of the New York Supreme Court and a former New York City Highway Commissioner, died of cancer yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was 66 years old and lived in Breezy Point, Queens."</ref>
- Charles Hynes (1935–2019), district attorney of Kings County, New York from 1990 until 2013.<ref>Fried, Joseph P. "Charles J. Hynes, Brooklyn D.A. in a Tumultuous Era, Dies at 83", The New York Times, January 30, 2019. Accessed October 11, 2021. "He lived in Brooklyn and Breezy Point in the Rockaways."</ref>
- Brian McNamee (born c. 1967), former strength and conditioning coach for the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays<ref>Kovaleski, Serge F. "A Baseball Lover, Key to Tarnishing a Yankee Era", The New York Times, December 15, 2007. Accessed February 19, 2008. "Mr. McNamee was raised in the Breezy Point section of Queens, on the westward end of the Rockaway Peninsula, an area with many police officers, like his father."</ref>
- Jimmy Ring (1895–1965), Major League Baseball player<ref>Jimmy Ring, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed October 11, 2021. "James Joseph Ring died of a heart attack at his summer home on Breezy Point, Queens, on July 6, 1965, at the age of 70."</ref>
- Daniel T. Scannell (1912–2000), attorney and business executive who held numerous positions in New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.<ref>Goldman, Ari A. "Man In The News; Acting Transit Chief; Donald Thomas Scannel", The New York Times, August 22, 1983. Accessed October 11, 2021. "The 70-year-old Mr. Scannell had just come back to his summer home in Breezy Point, Queens, after jogging to the beach, where he swam three- quarters of a mile."</ref>
- Bob Turner (born 1941), businessman and politician who served as the United States representative for New York's 9th congressional district from 2011 to 2013.<ref>Kaplan, Thomas. "Lawmaker Takes Office and Learns Some Rules", The New York Times, September 15, 2011. Accessed October 11, 2021. "'I felt a certain awe,' Mr. Turner, 70, a retired cable television executive who lives in Breezy Point, Queens, said in an interview."</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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