Beach 12th Street & Meehan Avenue

Beach 12th Street and Meehan Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Khal Machzikei Torah Synagogue is 550 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Beach 9 St/Meeham Av, is 470 feet away for the Q114, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them playgrounds. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1981, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Beach 12th Street & Meehan Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach 9 St/Meeham Av, 470 feet away, for the Q114.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 9 St/Meeham Av Q114
    470 feet
    Q114

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q114 …

Live arrivals

By car

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

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2018.

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
7 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1981.

Trees

NYC Parks records 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 12th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam School
    930 feet
  2. Bnos Bais Yaakov of Far Rockaway School
    1,060 feet
  3. P.S. 197 the Ocean School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lanett Playground
    940 feet
  2. Beach 9 Playground
    970 feet
  3. Beach 17 Playground
    1,040 feet

Health care

  1. Oceanview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    400 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Khal Machzikei Torah Synagogue House of worship
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners 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.