Beach 144th Street & Beach Channel Drive

Beach 144th Street and Beach Channel Drive meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner is also named Leroy H. Gwirtzman Triangle by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Jacob Riis Park is 100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St, is 0.4 miles away for the Q35, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St · Q35
Within a walk
1 place
1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach 144th Street & Beach Channel Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St, 0.4 miles away, for the Q35.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St Q35
    0.4 miles
    Q35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q35 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge at Beach Channel Drive, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 115-05 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 248 Beach 116th Street Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11694
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Elevation
5 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Leroy H. Gwirtzman Triangle, a co-naming enacted on April 25, 1997 (Local Law 24 of 1997).

The streets

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

Homes

About 150 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Leroy H. Gwirtzman Triangle.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jacob Riis Park
    100 feet

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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Beach 144th Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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