Edgemere is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the borough of Queens. It was developed in 1892 by Frederick J. Lancaster and he called it New Venice. The name Edgemere means at the sea's edge. In 1894 the Edgemere Hotel was opened. Edgemere was once a thriving beachfront neighborhood with inexpensive summer hotels and bungalows, amusements and boardwalk concessions. In the 1960s massive urban renewal projects brought the demolition of majority of these resorts with nothing to replace them, leaving the area a large wasteland for decades. In the 1990s was there was a substantial sign of reversing this trend.