Main city: Far Rockaway
Timezone: Eastern
Phone type: Unknown
Operator: Omnipoint Communications

Far Rockaway, a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood starts at the Nassau County line and extends west to Beach 32nd Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14. The name "Rockaway" may have meant "place of sands" in the Munsee language of the Native American Lenape. Other spellings include Requarkie, Rechouwakie, Rechaweygh, Rechquaakie and Reckowacky (see: Toponymy of New Netherland). ^source

North American area codes 718, 347 and 929 are New York City telephone area codes in the boroughs of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, as well as the Marble Hill section of Manhattan. It is overlaid by area code 917, which covers the entirety of New York City. ^source