ZIP 11436 is South Ozone Park, the JFK-adjacent, Aqueduct-anchored, Caribbean-heavy ZIP. Resorts World Casino + Aqueduct Racetrack dominate the northern third. Rockaway Boulevard cuts east-west; Sutphin Boulevard runs north-south on the eastern edge.
South Ozone Park is denser and more Afro-Caribbean than the rest of OZP, Guyanese, Trinidadian, Jamaican, Haitian. The Aqueduct + Resorts World complex is the regional employer. JFK Airport sits just beyond the eastern border, the ZIP picks up the airport-service economy spillover. Single-family + two-family brick homes on small lots, with denser apartment buildings along Rockaway + Sutphin Boulevards.
The A train serves the Aqueduct-Racetrack stop in the northern part of the ZIP. Q9, Q10, Q40, Q41 buses cross. From the Ozone Park depot, drivers reach 11436 in 10-15 minutes via Rockaway Boulevard.
The 192-acre thoroughbred racing facility opened 1894, winter meet anchor for the NYRA, home of the Wood Memorial Stakes.
The 5,000-machine video-gaming + entertainment casino at 110-00 Rockaway Boulevard, opened 2011 inside the Aqueduct grandstand complex.
The eastern border of 11436 runs along the JFK service road perimeter, the airport itself is 11430, but the airport-service economy spills into 11436.
