Beach 22nd Street & Elk Drive

Beach 22nd Street and Elk Drive 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. Premier Nursing and Rehab Center of Far Rockaway is 1,150 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 25 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

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Beach 22nd Street & Elk Drive Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 25 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 25 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …
Far Rockaway
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. Far Rockaway-Mott Av A
    0.4 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Past/Present/Future” (2011) by Mauricio Lopez at the Beach 25 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach 20 St/Plainview Av, 1,090 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 20 St/Plainview Av Q22
    1,090 feet
    Q22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

  1. 13-46 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 20-38 Seagirt Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2022.

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
12 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 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 1957 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 25 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Yoshino cherry.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Wave Preparatory Elementary School
    990 feet
  2. Ralph Hirschkorn Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grassmere Playground
    800 feet

Health care

  1. St Johns Episcopal Hospital So Shore Hospital
    1,100 feet
  2. Premier Nursing and Rehab Center of Far Rockaway Nursing home or hospice
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Mary Star of the Sea RC Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,220 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,040 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.