Rockaway Inlet

Strait in New York City

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 (formerly Barren Island) in Brooklyn.

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. In 1968 a light failed and the tanker Mary A. Whalen ran aground, resulting in a case entitled United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. about dividing damage payments.^[1]

The inlet is spanned by the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.

References

^ UNITED STATES, Petitioner, v. RELIABLE TRANSFER CO., INC. Cornell University Legal Information Institute

External links

Nautical chart

Waterways of New York City

Tidal straits

New York Harbor	Buttermilk Channel The Narrows Ambrose Channel New York Bight
Other interstate	Arthur Kill Kill Van Kull Long Island Sound
Intra-city	Bronx Kill East River Hell Gate Harlem River Rockaway Inlet Spuyten Duyvil Creek

Bays and coves

New York Bay

Upper New York Bay	Gowanus Bay
Lower New York Bay	Gravesend Bay Great Kills Jamaica Bay Bergen Basin East Rockaway Inlet Mill Basin Paerdegat Basin Newark Bay Prince's Bay Raritan Bay Rockaway Inlet Dead Horse Bay Sheepshead Bay

East River

Long Island Sound

Rivers, creeks,
canals

Hudson River
- North River

Long Island	Alley Pond Bushwick Inlet Coney Island Creek Flushing River Gerritsen Creek Gowanus Canal Hawtree Creek Horse Brook Kissena Creek Newtown Creek Spring Creek Sunswick Creek
The Bronx	Bronx River Hutchinson River Pugsley's Creek Rattlesnake Creek Tibbetts Brook Westchester Creek
Manhattan	Broad Street Canal Street Minetta Creek Sawkill Creek Sherman Creek
Staten Island	Fresh Kills Richmond Creek Lemon Creek New Creek

Lakes, ponds,
reservoirs

Long Island	Baisley Pond Beaver Pond Bowne Lake Golden Pond Goose Pond Kissena Lake Meadow and Willow Lakes Potamogeton Pond Prospect Park Lake Ridgewood Reservoir Roy Wilkins Park Pond Strack Pond
The Bronx	Crotona Park Reservoir Jerome Park Reservoir Van Cortlandt Lake Williamsbridge Reservoir
Manhattan	Collect Pond Central Park Conservatory Water Harlem Meer Lake Onassis Reservoir Pond Pool and Loch Turtle Pond Croton Distributing Reservoir Highbridge Reservoir
Staten Island	Clove Lakes Long Pond Sharrotts Pond Silver Lake Wolfe's Pond