East Rockaway est un village du comté de Nassau, dans l'État de New York, aux États-Unis. En 2010, il comptait une population de 9 818 habitants.
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East Rockaway is a village located within Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 10,159 at the time of the 2020 census.
The Incorporated Village of East Rockaway is at the edge of Rockaway Peninsula Proper in the town of Hempstead, adjacent to Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett, Rockville Centre, Lynbrook, and Oceanside. It is the final neighborhood before the beginning of Five Towns, although some have come to include wealthier sections of East Rockaway as a part of Five Towns. East Rockaway is an inner suburb, only 24 km from downtown Manhattan. The primary ethnicities are Italian and Irish. The Waverly Park neighborhood, near the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Center Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre | Synagogue | 295 Main Street, East Rockaway, NY, USA and along the border with Hewlett, has a sizable Jewish community.
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Denton Homestead is a historic home located at East Rockaway in Nassau County, New York. It was built as a tavern about 1795, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay, center-hall-plan, vernacular Colonial style frame dwelling. The Denton family bought it in 1808 and converted to a residential farmhouse. It has a side-gable roof and a hipped roof addition added after the house was moved to its present location in 1924. The front facade features a full-width, shed-roofed front porch. The interior features some Colonial Revival style design elements. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house. The house is a rare surviving former tavern and farmhouse from the village's early period.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
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Haviland-Davison Grist Mill is a historic grist mill located at East Rockaway in Nassau County, New York. It was restored and relocated to its present site in Memorial Park in 1963. It was built about 1689 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, T-shaped, timber-frame building. The original section has one large addition and two smaller wings attached to each side.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The mill is now known as the East Rockaway Grist Mill Museum and features artifacts and displays of local history.
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Centre Avenue is one of two Long Island Rail Road stations located within the Incorporated Village of East Rockaway, in Nassau County, New York. The station is officially located at Forest Avenue, between Rocklyn & Centre Avenues – one block east of Atlantic Avenue.
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East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School is a six-year public secondary school in East Rockaway, New York, and the sole high school in East Rockaway School District. As of the 2023-24 school year, the school enrolled 577 students.