Beach 12th Street & Dinsmore Avenue

Beach 12th Street and Dinsmore Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok is 450 feet away. The nearest subway, Far Rockaway-Mott Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1928 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Beach 12th Street & Dinsmore Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Far Rockaway-Mott Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Far Rockaway-Mott Av A
    0.5 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Respite” (2011) by Jason Rohlf at the Far Rockaway-Mott Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach 9 St/Cornaga Av, 1,110 feet away, for the Q113 and Q114.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 9 St/Cornaga Av Q113, Q114
    1,110 feet
    Q113 Q114

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q113 …
  2. Q114 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 13-46 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 20-02 Seagirt Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11691
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
101
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Far Rockaway-Bayswater
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the hawthorn.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 12th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Beach 12th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of Dinsmore Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Dinsmore Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok School
    450 feet
  2. Little Friends Gan Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  3. M.S. 053 Brian Piccolo School
    980 feet
Show all 6
  1. Success Academy Charter School - Far Rockaway School
    980 feet
  2. Village Academy School
    980 feet
  3. The Randolph Holder School for Social Justice School
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.