Breezy Point is a neighborhood in the New York City

New York City

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 borough

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 of Queens

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, located on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula

Rockaway, Queens

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, between Rockaway Inlet

Rockaway Inlet

Rockaway Inlet is a strait connecting Jamaica Bay, wholly within New York City, with the Atlantic Ocean. It separates the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens from the Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn....

 and Jamaica Bay

Jamaica Bay

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 on the landward side, and the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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. The neighborhood is governed by Queens Community Board 14

Queens Community Board 14

The Queens Community Board 14 is a local government in the New York City borough of Queens, encompassing the neighborhoods of Breezy Point, Belle Harbor, Neponsit, Arverne, Bayswater, Edgemere, Rockaway Park, Rockaway and Far Rockaway...

. The community is run by the Breezy Point Cooperative

Cooperative

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, in which all residents pay the maintenance, security, and community-oriented costs involved with keeping the community private. The cooperative owns the entire 500 acres (2 km²) community; residents own their homes and hold shares in the cooperative.

Breezy Point and the Rockaway Peninsula in general are unlike the rest of the city of New York, with the latter being very urbanized, developed and noisy, with Breezy Point being a quiet beach community, having more in common with nearby Long Island

Long Island

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 and even the Hamptons.
According to the United States Census Bureau

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, the community's ZIP code

ZIP Code

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 (11697) is 99.2% white and has the nation's 2nd highest concentration of Irish-Americans, at 60.3% as of the United States Census, 2000

United States Census, 2000

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 (Squantum, in Quincy, Massachusetts, is #1, at 65%).