Belle Harbor is an upscale neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is a tightly-knit, upper middle-class community located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the borough. While there are no formal boundaries for the area, Belle Harbor is often used to refer to the area between Beach 126th and Beach 142nd Streets. According to a map from 1909, Belle Harbor is located in the area between Beach 12...
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Belle Harbor is an upscale neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is a tightly-knit, upper middle-class community located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the borough. While there are no formal boundaries for the area, Belle Harbor is often used to refer to the area between Beach 126th and Beach 142nd Streets. According to a map from 1909, Belle Harbor is located in the area between Beach 125th (west side) and Beach 141st Streets. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14. The USPS zip code is 11694.
Belle Harbor is the site of the fatal 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587.
The opening of passenger railroad service in 1880 to Rockaway Park from Long Island City and from Flatbush Terminal in downtown Brooklyn, via the Long Island Railroad's Rockaway Beach Branch, facilitated population growth on the Rockaways Peninsula.
Belle Harbor was developed in 1907 by Frederick J. Lancaster, who had earlier developed the...
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