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Breezy Point, Queens
Breezy Point is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula, between Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay on the landward side, and the Atlantic Ocean. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community District 14.〔(Queens Community Boards ), New York City. Accessed September 3, 2007.〕 The community is run by the Breezy Point Cooperative, in which all residents pay the maintenance, security, and community-oriented costs involved with keeping the community private. The cooperative owns the entire community; residents own their homes and hold shares in the cooperative.〔Sciolino, Elaine. ("A Cooperative on the Beach Loves Privacy" ), ''The New York Times'', September 10, 1984. Accessed November 21, 2007.〕 Breezy Point and the Rockaways are less urbanized than most of the rest of New York City.
Breezy Point Tip, to the west of the community, is part of Gateway National Recreation Area, which is run by the National Park Service. This isolated, area includes an ocean-facing beach, a shoreline on Jamaica Bay, sand dunes, and marshland. It is a breeding spot for the piping plover, least tern, black skimmer, American oystercatcher and common tern.〔(Breezy Point ) Brooklyn Bird Club, Accessed November 24, 2008.〕
== Demographics ==
According to the United States Census Bureau, the community's ZIP code (11697) is 98.2% white (compared to 16% white in nearby Far Rockaway http://www.movoto.com/far-rockaway-ny/11691/demographics/) and has the nation's 2nd highest concentration of Irish-Americans, at 60.3% as of the United States Census, 2000 (Squantum, in Quincy, Massachusetts, is #1, at 65%).〔( QT-P13. Ancestry: 2000 for 11697 5-Digit ZCTA ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed October 2, 2007.〕 The community's demographics are maintained as a result of a Cooperative rule that a person, prior to buying a house, must be recommended by three members of the Cooperative and approved by its Board of Directors.〔 Breezy Point functions mainly as a summer get-away for many residents of New York. Estimates put summer residency at 12,000, while year-round residency was 4337 in the most recent Census.〔
Due to its history of Irish-American population, Breezy Point has been called the "Irish Riviera." Since the mid-1990s, Italians and Jews have also moved into Breezy Point, making the concentration of Irish-Americans drop.〔Herszenhorn, David M. ("THE CENSUS -- A Region of Enclaves: Breezy Point, Queens; Bounded by Gates, Over a Toll Bridge" ), ''The New York Times'', June 18, 2001. Accessed November 1, 2007. "The neighborhood, started in the early 1900s as a summer bungalow community and called the Irish Riviera..."〕
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