Neponsit Mall

Rockaway Beach Blvd. bet. Beach 149 St. and Beach 142 St.

Queens

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

Neponsit Malls consists of eight landscaped plots located in the center of Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Extending between Beach 140th Street and Jacob Riis Park, the plots were created in 1915 through a Rockaway Beach Boulevard improvement resolution. In 1922, the 20-foot wide malls were placed under Parks’s jurisdiction.