Drinks in The Rockaways

A bar and grill on the Jamaica Bay side at the foot of the Cross Bay Bridge, with a deck over the water and boat slips off the end of it. Fish tacos, crab cakes, burgers and a raw bar, plus live music on the deck through the warm months. It trades year round, with the indoor side carrying the winter and the deck closed when it is cold.

Sun to Thu, 11:30am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 11:30am to 10pm, bar until midnight. Open year round

A yard behind a garage door on Beach 87th Street with picnic tables, a bar, murals on every wall and Tacoway Beach serving Baja-style tacos out of the kitchen at the back. It runs art shows and markets alongside the drinking, and it is where a lot of the peninsula's creative trade ends up on a summer evening. It is open May through October only, so it is no help at all in the winter.

Seasonal. Daily mid-May to October, noon to 11pm, weather permitting. Tacoway Beach serves 11am to 8pm. Closed November to April

A narrow tiki bar in the storefront strip under the Beach 67th Street station, so thin that the bar runs most of the length of it. Frozen drinks, rum, a short beer list, and a back patio when the weather allows. It opens at four in the afternoon most days and noon on Sunday, and it stays open through the winter when a good deal of the peninsula does not.

Tue to Thu, 4pm to 11pm. Fri and Sat, 4pm to midnight. Sun, noon to 11pm. Closed Monday

A Black-owned wine bar on Rockaway Beach Boulevard with a beer garden in the back and a kitchen running tapas until one in the morning. There is live music most weeks and a Sunday film screening in the garden, which is a fair indication of who drinks here. It opens at two in the afternoon and runs to four on Friday and Saturday, the latest hours on the peninsula.

Sun to Thu, 2pm to 1am. Fri and Sat, 2pm to 4am. Kitchen until 1am