Beach 17th Street & Beach 16th Street

Beach 17th Street and Beach 16th Street 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. Brookhaven Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is 670 feet away, and St Johns Episcopal Hospital So Shore is 1,300 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Beach 19 St/Plainview Av, is 870 feet away for the Q22, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
Beach 19 St/Plainview Av · Q22
Within a walk
11 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 nursing homes or hospices and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach 17th Street & Beach 16th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach 19 St/Plainview Av, 870 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 19 St/Plainview Av Q22
    870 feet
    Q22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 13-46 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 20-02 Seagirt Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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
11691
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
101
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Far Rockaway-Bayswater

The streets

  • One travel lane

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1980.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 cemetery
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Darchei Torah Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    460 feet
  2. Yeshiva Darchei Torah School
    540 feet
  3. Tiegerman School - Far Rockaway School
    1,020 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ralph Hirschkorn Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Beach 17 Playground
    1,130 feet
  2. Cornell Burial Ground Cemetery
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. Brookhaven Rehabilitation & Health Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    670 feet
  2. Beach Gardens Rehab and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    670 feet
  3. St Johns Episcopal Hospital So Shore Hospital
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and 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 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, two of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 16th Street or Beach 17th Street.

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