Wavecrest Optical Shop, 1055 Beach 21ST St, Far Rockaway: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1871627679
- Legal business name
- Raines Optical Company, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Wavecrest Optical Shop
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 1055 Beach 21ST St
Far Rockaway, NY 11691-3304 - Phone on the record
- (718) 327-2020
- NPI issued
- March 15, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 20, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
- County
- Queens County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Raines Optical Company, LLC and registered Wavecrest Optical Shop as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in May 2026, putting it among the 373 of 2,176 New York-Newark-Jersey City records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Far Rockaway holds 10 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 5 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 11691. 1 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is New Vision Ophthalmology in Far Rockaway, 0.3 miles away.
None of this is a licensing check. CMS issues an NPI so a provider can be identified in billing transactions, and states plainly that issuance does not ensure or validate that the holder is licensed or credentialed. The New York boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
2,075 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro itself there are 2,176, 9 of them elsewhere in Far Rockaway. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Vision Ophthalmology | Far Rockaway | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (718) 265-9900 |
| Far Rockaway Eyecare | Far Rockaway | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (718) 337-2020 |
| Namdar Optometry PC | Far Rockaway | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (718) 327-0048 |
| Advanced Ophthalmology, PC | Far Rockaway | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (718) 327-3200 |
| Wavecrest Optical Shop | Far Rockaway | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (718) 327-2020 |
Distances are straight line between registered practice locations, not driving distance. Records placed at a ZIP centroid rather than a matched street address are excluded from this comparison.
What to expect to pay at an optometry practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Wavecrest Optical Shop, and independent optometry practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $120 to $200 at this kind of practice without insurance, which is a reported band rather than a published price. The nearest published figure is $95, the median starting fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004). Ask Wavecrest Optical Shop for its self-pay price.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses (the median published contact-lens fee is $129). A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price. If price is the deciding factor, the 2,176 practices on the New York-Newark-Jersey City page give you the full local field to call around.