Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District nominated to be on registers of historic places

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    Crain’s reports that on Tuesday, the Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District was nominated by the NY State Board for Historic Preservation to be in the New York and national registers of historic places. There are about 400 (down from 7,000 during Rockaway bungalow heyday) that remain and they survived Hurricane Sandy, “relatively unscathed”; from what we can tell from the maps, the boardwalk did better here than a lot of places.

    This nomination could lead to the neighborhood becoming a historic landmark.

    Here is the general area – Beach 24th, Beach 25th, and Beach 26th Streets between between Seagirt Avenue and the Atlantic.

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    Image source: Google Maps

    If you’d like to read the application that was submitted to the Parks Service in October, check it out (.pdf). It’s a very interesting read.

    The Board for Historic Preservation calls the neighborhood “the last remaining intact community of the seasonal beach bungalow architecture that once dominated the oceanfront of Far Rockaway.” To learn more about the bungalows, the film, The Bungalows of Rockaway has a lot to share and say.

    Sandy survivors nominated as landmarks [Crain’s]
    The Bungalows of Rockaway [QNYC]

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