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Beach Channel Dr Bch 104th St td 03 - Beach Channel High School
The athletic complex of Beach Channel High School, on the north side of Beach Channel Drive at Beach 104th Street in Seaside / Rockaway Beach, Queens. Pictured are the tennis courts, the eight tennis courts. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- The athletic complex of Beach Channel High School, on the north side of Beach Channel Drive at Beach 104th Street in Seaside / Rockaway Beach, Queens. Pictured are the tennis courts, the eight tennis courts
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Rockaway Beach
How work, access and surfing shaped Rockaway Beach.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Rockaway Beach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens.
Sources for this chapter
BEFORE TOURISM
Before the surf map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Rockaway Beach before modern tourism.
This edition leaves that part of the timeline open rather than mistaking the first surviving sporting reference for the beginning of the place.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
In the early 1900s, the newly built railroad station opened up the community and the rest of the peninsula to a broad range of the population.
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Leaving The Surf at Rockaway Beach
Rockaway Beach is the only surfing spot in New York City. It's just across an inlet from JFK Airport. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Rockaway Beach is the only surfing spot in New York City. It's just across an inlet from JFK Airport
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Rockaway developed into an urban surf community on New York City’s Atlantic edge, with board shops, instruction and designated surfing water reached by public transport.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Rockaway Beach is recorded at 40.579° N, 73.838° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
Sources for this chapter
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Beach Channel Dr Bch 104th St td 03 - Beach Channel High School
The athletic complex of Beach Channel High School, on the north side of Beach Channel Drive at Beach 104th Street in Seaside / Rockaway Beach, Queens. Pictured are the tennis courts, the eight tennis courts. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- The athletic complex of Beach Channel High School, on the north side of Beach Channel Drive at Beach 104th Street in Seaside / Rockaway Beach, Queens. Pictured are the tennis courts, the eight tennis courts
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Rockaway Beach now
Rockaway is both a residential Queens neighbourhood and New York City’s principal surfing coast, reached by subway as well as road.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
Sources for this chapter
Artefacts in order of appearance
Beach Channel Dr Bch 104th St td 03 - Beach Channel High School
AOD.US.ROCKAWAY-BEACH.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Leaving The Surf at Rockaway Beach
AOD.US.ROCKAWAY-BEACH.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Rockaway Beach, Queens overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.