Rockaway Inlet

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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.

[edit] Description

Rockaway Inlet is bound by Brooklyn to the North and Rockaway Peninsula to the South. It is the entrance to Jamaica Bay, which is the location of the 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 bouys. It has a depth of about 15 feet midchannel with a shoal of only one foot.

[edit] Crossings

The inlet is spanned by only one fixed bridge: Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge

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