Hammels, Queens

Hammels, Queens

Hammels is a section of Rockaway Beach on the Rockaway Peninsula in the southeast section of the New York City borough of Queens. It is located west of Arverne and east of Seaside, and is centered on Beach 85th Street.Kenneth T. Jackson: "The Encyclopedia of New York City": New-York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. P. 120.] Its main thoroughfare is Beach Channel Drive. The NYCS service|A train passes through the neighborhood. The Hammel Houses, a public housing project built in the 1950s, are located in the neighborhood.

History

Hammels is named for local landowner Louis Hammel (1836-1904). It originated as a summer community based on a series of boardwalks that ran between the Bay and Ocean shores. This was followed by a hotel — the Eldert House — that was kept by Garret Eldert, and faced the bay on the east side of what today is Beach 85th Street. In August 1869, Louis Hammel leased the hotel. The New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway Railroad ran within a few feet of the hotel as a trestle was erected across the bay in 1880. The hotel gave an easement for construction of the "Hammels" station, which was used as the name for the entire community.A dock in front of the hotel on the Bay side, known as Fifth Landing, was a regular stop for boats of the Iron Steamboat Company. As the Rockaway resorts declined, residency changed to permanent residents. In 1897, Hammels merged with Hollands and was incorporated as the Village of Rockaway Beach. The following year Rockaway Beach became part of the City of Greater New York when the five boroughs consolidated into a single city. [ [http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12218 Hammel Playground] , New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed December 12, 2006.]

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