Bartending School in Breezy Point, NY

The community began as summer beach bungalows, in the “early 1900s”, according to the New York Times although this is impossible because at the time the shoreline was further east until landfill extended the Rockaways. Breezy Point was sold to the Atlantic Improvement State Corporation for $17 million in 1960. The residents of the community purchased half of the land for approximately $11 million and formed the Breezy Point Cooperative. Today, it consists of about 3,500 homes. The construction of apartment buildings commenced in the late 1960s and was halted by City ordinance.

Breezy Point is patrolled by its own private security force that restricts access to owners, renters and their guests. It also features three of New York City’s nine remaining volunteer fire departments.

On September 8, 2012, the community was struck by a tornado shortly before 11 a.m. that started as a waterspout over the Atlantic Ocean and came ashore at the Breezy Point Surf Club.