Rockaway Inlet is a strait connecting Jamaica Bay, wholly within New York City, with the Atlantic Ocean. It separates the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens from the Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
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Description
Rockaway Inlet is bounded by Brooklyn to the north and Rockaway Peninsula to the south. It is the entrance to Jamaica Bay, and most of the inlet is within the boundary of Gateway National Recreation Area. Its entrance is marked by a light on a jetty extending southward from Rockaway Point. The entrance channel extends westward of the jetty and is marked by lighted buoys. It has a depth of about 15 feet midchannel with a shoal of only one foot.
Crossings
The inlet is spanned by only one fixed bridge: Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
See also
East Rockaway Inlet separating the peninsula from Atlantic Beach
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Coordinates: 40°34′24″N 73°54′49″W / 40.5732°N 73.9136°W
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