Beach 20th Street & Brookhaven Avenue

Beach 20th Street and Brookhaven Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. The corner is also named St. John’s Episcopal Hospital Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Queens Nassau Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is 810 feet away, and Far Rockaway Teen Library is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, Far Rockaway-Mott Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Far Rockaway-Mott Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Beach 20 St/Brookhaven Av · Q22, QM17
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach 20th Street & Brookhaven Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Far Rockaway-Mott Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Far Rockaway-Mott Av A
    0.4 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 20 St/Brookhaven Av, 90 feet away, for the Q22 and QM17.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 20 St/Brookhaven Av Q22, QM17
    90 feet
    Q22 QM17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. QM17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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

This corner is also named St. John’s Episcopal Hospital Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

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 1932 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on St. John’s Episcopal Hospital Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2023 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Beach 20th Street (west side).

East side of Beach 20th Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 465366 and 465525.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Ralph Hirschkorn Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  2. Omni Childhood Center School
    1,200 feet
  3. Tiegerman School - Far Rockaway School
    1,260 feet
Show all 4
  1. Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. St Johns Episcopal Hospital So Shore Hospital
    470 feet
  2. Queens Nassau Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    810 feet
  3. Beach Gardens Rehab and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Far Rockaway Teen Library
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Mary Star of the Sea RC Church House of worship
    580 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    590 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,180 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,060 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and 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 20th Street or Brookhaven Avenue.

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