Living in Belle Harbor: rent, commute and grades

Queens · Updated November 2026

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This guide also covers Neponsit and Broad Channel, which share Belle Harbor’s official city boundaries.

Rent in Belle Harbor

$1,583 a month, estimated

Type of homeA room in a 2-bedroom, shared by two

DOverall

Grades compare NYC neighborhoods with each other. How the grades work.

FWalkability
The average home has 3.1 of 5 everyday needs within a 10-minute walk (grocery store, restaurant, cafe, subway station, park) and about 23 places to eat or shop.
FFood and shopping
Within a 10-minute walk of the average home: about 8 places to eat, 5 kinds of cuisine, 1 large grocery stores and 12 open storefronts.
DParks and green space
74% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 267 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 177 street trees within 300 m of the average home.

DCommunity
18% of households moved in since 2018, 5% are roommates sharing a home, 12% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 4 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
DNightlife
About 4 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
Residents: In Broad Channel there is little going on in winter, and it is very windy. Broad Channel resident, Jun 2025

ASafety
2.8 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (73 in all).
A-Quiet
25 noise complaints to 311 per 1,000 residents in 2025, not counting helicopter complaints, and counting each address at most 12 days a year. That measures how often people complain, not how loud it is.
BBuilding upkeep
10.7 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 5.6 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

NightlifeIn Broad Channel there is little going on in winter, and it is very windy. Broad Channel resident, Jun 2025

By subway or bus, arriving by 9:00 on a weekday:Under 30 min30 to 45 min45 to 60 minOver an hourBelle Harbor

Belle Harbor, Neponsit and Rockaway Park sit toward the western end of the Rockaway peninsula, which is some 11 miles long and averages under three quarters of a mile wide. Broad Channel sits in Jamaica Bay. Source
Beach 116th Street, from Beach Channel Drive to the Ocean Promenade, is Rockaway Park's commercial street, and the city's 2008 rezoning mapped commercial zoning along it. Source
West of Beach 117th to 120th Streets, out to Beach 130th Street, Rockaway Park's blocks are mostly one and two family detached houses on larger lots, and the city's 2008 rezoning limited new homes there to that type. Source
Jacob Riis Park, the ocean beach just west of Neponsit, was laid out by the city as a park in 1912. Its bathhouse was built in 1932, and the park became part of the National Park Service's Gateway National Recreation Area in 1972. Source
NYC Ferry's Rockaway-Soundview route stops in Rockaway Park, at a landing two blocks north of Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 108th Street, linking the peninsula with Sunset Park, Lower Manhattan and the Bronx. Source
Broad Channel is where the Rockaway Park branch leaves the A line; the S shuttle runs the branch to Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St, and A trains run through to Rockaway Park only in the peak direction at rush hour. Source