Other phrases, such as "lekau" (sand) "lechauwaak" (fork or branch), also referred to the area's geography. One possible interpretation is "Reckonwacky", which translates to "the place of our own people", while another is "Reckanawahaha", which translates to "the place of laughing waters". Other interpretations of the peninsula's indigenous name have also been proposed. (This area was mistakenly documented as occupied by a band of Mohawk people in a 1934 source, but this Iroquoian-speaking tribe primarily occupied the Mohawk River valley in central New York, north and west of the Hudson River and Long Island.) The name Reckowacky was used to distinguish the Rockaway village from other Mohegan villages "Reckowacky" means "lonely place", or "place of waters bright". The indigenous inhabitants of the Rockaways were the Canarsie Indians, a band of Lenape, whose name was associated with the geography. Other spellings include Requarkie, Rechouwakie, Rechaweygh, Rechquaakie and Reckowacky, transliterated in Dutch and English by early colonists. The name "Rockaway" may have meant "place of sands" in the Munsee language of the Native American Lenape who occupied this area at the time of European contact in the early 17th century. All ZIP Codes in Rockaway begin with the three digits 116 and the central post office is in Far Rockaway. As of 2007, the peninsula's total population is estimated to be just below 130,000. The peninsula is part of Queens Community District 14 and is patrolled by the 100th and 101st Precincts of the New York City Police Department. This includes the smaller areas of Roxbury and Rockaway Point, as well as * Fort Tilden
Breezy Point, from Beach 169th to the western tip.Riis Park, Beach 149th Street to Beach 169th Street.Neponsit, Beach 141st Street to Beach 149th Street.Belle Harbor, from Beach 126th Street to Beach 141st Street.Rockaway Park, from Beach 98th Street to Beach 126th Street.Rockaway Beach, from 77th Street to Beach 97th Street.Arverne, from Beach 56th Street to Beach 77th Street.Edgemere, from Beach 32nd Street to Beach 56th Street.Bayswater, located to the northeast of Far Rockaway, along the southeastern shore of Jamaica Bay.Far Rockaway, from the Nassau County line to Beach 32nd Street.The peninsula is divided into nine neighborhoods or sections, with Riis Park in between two of such sections. In the 2010s, it became one of the city's most quickly gentrifying areas.
It has since become a mixture of lower, middle, and upper-class neighborhoods.
Relatively isolated from Manhattan and other more urban parts of the city, Rockaway became a popular summer retreat in the 1830s. The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is a peninsula at the southern edge of the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York.
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