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Howard Beach, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Howard Beach lies in the southwestern portion of Queens, a low-rise neighbourhood of detached houses facing Jamaica Bay.
About Howard Beach
Where to stay in Howard Beach
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Howard Beach carries little in the way of hotels, and travellers who choose it are usually here for the quiet residential streets rather than for anything within walking reach. Cars help. The Belt Parkway runs along the northern boundary and gives the fastest road out toward Ozone Park and the rest of Queens.
Blocks toward Jamaica Bay sit furthest from through-traffic. Anyone crossing to Brooklyn should look at the western edge by 75th Street in East New York.
About Howard Beach
What are the main landmarks in Howard Beach?
No listed monuments sit here. The draw is the water: Jamaica Bay spreads along the southern side toward Broad Channel, and the rows of detached houses that face it define what visitors see. Boundary roads do the rest. 102nd and 104th Streets mark the eastern limit at South Ozone Park, a boundary of numbered blocks rather than of anything built to be looked at.
What is the history of Howard Beach?
Howard Beach grew between two hard edges. Jamaica Bay stops it in the south at Broad Channel, while the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue hold the north at Ozone Park, leaving a strip that filled with low-rise single-family detached houses. Nothing tall followed.
The pattern still runs unbroken, and detached houses on quiet blocks remain the neighbourhood's defining fabric within New York City.
Where is Howard Beach?
The neighbourhood sits in the southwestern portion of Queens, running from 75th Street on the Brooklyn side east to 102nd and 104th Streets.
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Updated September 2026