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Seaside, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Seaside is a section of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens, wedged between Rockaway Beach and Rockaway Park.
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Where to stay in Seaside
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Open water sets the southern limit of Seaside. The section runs along the south shore of the Rockaway Peninsula, where middle-income high-rise Mitchell-Lama apartment buildings hold most of the frontage and leave little room for visitor beds inside Seaside itself. Rockaway Beach adjoins the eastern side.
Rockaway Park closes the western end, and either neighbour puts the same peninsula beach and the same stretch of shorefront within a few blocks of the door.
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Rockaway Beach
Rockaway Beach borders Seaside on the east and shares the same peninsula shoreline, so the beachfront Seaside is built around starts at its doorstep.Find hotels in Rockaway BeachStays at the western end of the Seaside beachfrontRockaway Park
Rockaway Park bounds Seaside on the west and gives the nearer approach for anyone arriving along the Rockaway Peninsula from that direction.Find hotels in Rockaway ParkVisits built around the Mitchell-Lama beachfront blocks of SeasideThe Seaside south shore beachfront
The south shore beachfront is the stretch where Seaside's high-rise Mitchell-Lama buildings stand, and that frontage is housing rather than lodging. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in The Seaside south shore beachfrontHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Seaside
What are the main landmarks in Seaside?
Seaside enters the register without a landmark to its name. What stands along the south shore beachfront is a wall of middle-income high-rise Mitchell-Lama apartment buildings, which took the ground once held by the small seasonal bungalows of the old resort community. Beach fills the rest.
Rockaway Beach borders the section on the east and Rockaway Park on the west, the two named neighbourhoods that fix Seaside's limits along the Rockaway Peninsula.
What is the history of Seaside?
Seaside began as a resort community. Small seasonal bungalows made up the section then, a summer quarter on the Rockaway Peninsula inside the New York City borough of Queens, and its houses were put up for the warm months rather than for the whole year. The bungalow era closed.
Middle-income Mitchell-Lama apartment buildings rose in their place along the south shore, giving Seaside the high-rise profile that stands between Rockaway Beach and Rockaway Park.
Where is Seaside?
Seaside takes a stretch of the Rockaway Peninsula, with Rockaway Beach on its eastern flank, Rockaway Park on its western one, and beachfront along the south shore.
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What is the best area to stay in Seaside?
Rockaway Beach: Beds on the eastern flank of Seaside along the Rockaway Peninsula. Rockaway Park: Stays at the western end of the Seaside beachfront. The Seaside south shore beachfront: Visits built around the Mitchell-Lama beachfront blocks of Seaside.
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Updated September 2026