Far Rockaway, NY Shul Map

Far Rockaway, NY has 37 shuls on ShulMap in Long Island, NY: Congregation Kneseth Israel (The White Shul), Young Israel of Far Rockaway, Agudath Israel of Bayswater, Agudath Israel of Long Island, Agudath Israel of West Lawrence, Bais Medrash Ateres Yisroel, Bais Medrash of Bayswater, Bais Medrash Ohr Shlomo, Beth Shmuel D'Spinka, Chabad Lubavitch of Far Rockaway, Hili Bais Medrash, K'hal Chesed V'emes, K'hal Nesiv Hatorah, Kehilas Jacob, Knesseth Meir, Young Israel of Wavecrest & Bayswater, Beit Hamidrash Eitz Chaim, Yeshiva Shor Yoshuv, Jewish Center Of Atlantic Beach, Bais Tefila, Bais Yisroel Of Bayswater (Maimonides Minyan), Chevras Noam Siach, Cong. Torah Utefilla / Rabbi Bodner's Shu, Kehillas Darchei Alumni, Khal Bais Shmuel Abba, Khal Chassidim Of Bayswater, Khal Machzikei Torah, Kollel Avreichim, Mateh Zevulun / Rabbi Farkas Shul, Shalom Teman, Siach Yitzchok, The Beach Shul, Yeshiva Ateres Shimon, Yeshiva Bnei Torah, Yeshiva Gedola - Meor Hatalmud, Yeshiva Of Far Rockaway, Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh.

The dense, yeshivish-leaning half of the Five Towns community — seventeen shuls, Yeshiva Darchei Torah, and the most affordable frum housing within walking distance of the Five Towns.

Yes — shul is the traditional term for synagogue, and Far Rockaway, NY has 37 Orthodox synagogues listed on ShulMap, each mapped with the kosher amenities and housing around it.

Far Rockaway is in Queens County, New York — inside New York City limits, on the Rockaway Peninsula. Despite the municipal line, it functions as one community with the Five Towns in neighboring Nassau County, and many families daven, shop, and send their children to school across it without noticing.

Far Rockaway and adjacent Bayswater together hold a large Orthodox population, commonly estimated in the tens of thousands, and taken together with the Five Towns next door the combined community is among the largest Orthodox concentrations in the New York area. The neighborhood skews yeshivish and young. These are community estimates, not census counts.

Congregation Kneseth Israel, universally called The White Shul, is Far Rockaway's historic anchor congregation. It is joined by Young Israel of Far Rockaway and a long list of batei medrash — Agudath Israel of Bayswater, of Long Island and of West Lawrence, Bais Medrash of Bayswater, Ateres Yisroel, Ohr Shlomo, Kehilas Jacob, Knesseth Meir and more, plus Chabad and a Sephardic beis medrash. Yeshiva Darchei Torah on Beach 17th Street, one of the largest boys' yeshivos in the country, is the neighborhood's other gravitational center.

Yes, and it is a different eruv from the Five Towns one. The Far Rockaway and Lawrence Eruv covers Far Rockaway together with Lawrence, and publishes status on the hotline at 718-471-9200 as well as by email and text alert. Two exclusions are named specifically: the Far Rockaway Boardwalk, which begins at the end of Beach 9th Street, and the Atlantic Beach Bridge past the tollbooths. Lawrence is unusual in sitting inside both this eruv and the neighboring Five Towns Eruv. Source: farrockawaylawrenceeruv.org, checked 7 September 2026. Confirm the current boundary and weekly status before carrying, and follow your own rav.

The US Census median home value for ZIP 11691, which covers Far Rockaway, NY, is $677,000 (American Community Survey, 2020–2024, as valued by owners), and 72% of households there rent. That is a ZIP-wide figure, and asking prices today usually run higher — on ShulMap Far Rockaway, NY sits in the $$ band relative to nearby communities.

Use the apartment and home search on this page to see current listings in Far Rockaway, NY. Walking distances to shuls are approximate — confirm what's comfortable for your family.