Beach 17th Street & Plainview Avenue
Beach 17th Street and Plainview Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Yeshiva Darchei Torah is 500 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Beach 19 St/Plainview Av, is 610 feet away for the Q22, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them nursing homes or hospices, and two places to eat.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Beach 19 St/Plainview Av, 610 feet away, for the Q22.
- 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Beach 19 St/Plainview Av Q22610 feetQ22
Next buses at this stop
- Q22 …
By car
- 13-46 Beach Channel Drive Gas station0.9 miles
- 20-02 Seagirt Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers0.4 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.
The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.
What the city has done here
- Safety Improvement Project, 2019
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
- 15 feet above sea level
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1981.
Trees
NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 11 signs on these blocks
- 3 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in October 2022, and the sign on the street decides.
West side of Beach 17th Street
- No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
- No standing 6 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedThirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 3 nursing homes or hospices
- 3 schools
- 2 day care or pre-K sites
- 2 religious buildings
- 1 cemetery
- 2 other places
Schools and child care
- Congregation Darchei Torah Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K430 feet
- Yeshiva Darchei Torah School500 feet
- Tiegerman School - Far Rockaway School770 feet
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- Ralph Hirschkorn Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K1,010 feet
- Omni Childhood Center School1,280 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Cornell Burial Ground Cemetery950 feet
- Beach 17 Playground1,090 feet
Health care
- Beach Gardens Rehab and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice410 feet
- Brookhaven Rehabilitation & Health Care Center Nursing home or hospice630 feet
- St Johns Episcopal Hospital So Shore Hospital1,040 feet
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- Queens Nassau Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice1,240 feet
Supermarkets
- Shop Fair Supermarket0.3 miles
- Key Food Supermarket0.4 miles
Pharmacies
- CVS Pharmacy1,240 feet
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and four 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 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:
- Beach 17th Street & Beach 16th Street 260 feet
- Beach 17th Street & Caffrey Avenue 360 feet
- Beach 19th Street & Plainview Avenue 600 feet
- New Haven Avenue & Caffrey Avenue 700 feet
- Beach 19th Street & Brookhaven Avenue 890 feet
- New Haven Avenue & William Court 910 feet
- New Haven Avenue & Ostend Place 940 feet
- Caffrey Avenue & William Court 940 feet
See every intersection along Beach 17th Street or Plainview Avenue.