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Broad Channel, Queens, United States

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Unnamed Road
Gateway National Recreation Area
Far Rockaway
NY 11693
USA

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Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It occupies the southern portion of Rulers Bar Hassock (known colloquially as "Broad Channel Island"), which is the only inhabited island (pop. about 3,000) in Jamaica Bay. The neighborhood stands on Big Egg Marsh, an area of fill approximately 20 blocks long and 4 blocks wide. The community is an inholding within the Gateway National Recreation Area, a unit of the U.S National Park Service
Lying between Howard Beach and the Rockaway Peninsula, it is connected to those communities by bridges at either end of the island—the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge and the Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge—which carry vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Cross Bay Boulevard is the only through road. The area consists of artificial canals separating dead-end residential blocks.
The IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway (A S trains) serves the Broad Channel station.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, some mapmakers have shown the streets of Broad Channel numbered along the same continuum found in the rest of Queens besides the Rockaways, with the numbers of "Streets" increasing from west to east, the numbers of "Avenues" increasing from north to south, etc. However, Broad Channel streets have always had their own numbering format, including "East" and "West" prefixed "Roads" numbered north to south, independent of those used elsewhere in the borough. The directional prefixes ensured no duplication with any other "Road" in Queens. Note that there are no north-south streets in Broad Channel named as a "Street", they are mostly "Roads".

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