A Brooklyn developer is pitching a 47-unit residential project along Rockaway’s waterfront, adding another housing proposal to a peninsula already being reshaped by cranes, financing deals and big affordability promises. The plan is still in the proposal stage, but it puts a relatively compact building into one of Queens’ busiest development zones.
Brooklyn-based MJH Construction Corp. is behind the project, according to a Crain’s New York Business report published Thursday. The latest version calls for 47 apartments in a waterfront-area development in Rockaway, though the report does not identify an affordability component or a construction timeline.
The public permit trail shows an earlier version of the project at 53-06 Rockaway Beach Boulevard. PincusCo reported, citing city records, that job filing Q01297947 was submitted in October 2025 for a 33,025-square-foot residential building with 45 apartments. The difference between that filing and the newer 47-unit figure may reflect updated plans or a different way of counting the proposed homes.
The Vacant Lot Is Already Part Of A Bigger Land Rush
The site is currently listed as vacant commercial land, according to NYC Finance records. The city’s sales data show the 1,680-square-foot parcel changed hands for $725,000 in March 2025, before the latest development push began to come into view.
That proposed building would join a much larger wave of housing activity around Edgemere and Far Rockaway. In June, Hoodline reported on financing for an 18-story, 300-unit affordable tower at Edgemere Commons, part of a broader redevelopment plan that could eventually bring thousands of homes to the peninsula.
Rockaway’s Waterfront Comes With A Resilience Test
Development in this part of Queens is not just a question of how many apartments fit on a lot. The NYC Department of City Planning describes Rockaway’s communities as sitting between Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, with local stakeholders pushing for flood-resistant construction, coastal protection and better transportation.
The city’s coastal infrastructure program says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on a shoreline protection project stretching from Far Rockaway to Neponsit across more than six miles of oceanfront. For the 47-unit proposal, the next meaningful signals will be updated building filings, any disclosed affordability requirements and evidence that the design is being engineered for the realities of coastal Queens.
For now, the project is best understood as another early-stage bet on Rockaway’s future rather than a building residents can expect to see completed soon. The latest plans add a small-to-mid-sized residential project to a neighborhood where development is arriving in several very different forms at once, from market-driven proposals to deeply subsidized towers.
