Beach 44th Street & Edgemere Drive

Beach 44th Street and Edgemere Drive meet at a three-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Edgemere Urban Renewal Park is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 44 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1960 and 1972, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Beach 44th Street & Edgemere Drive Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 44 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 44 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Coom Barooom” (2011) by Jill Parisi at the Beach 44 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 44 St, 770 feet away, for the Q22, Q121 and QM17.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 44 St Q22, Q121, QM17
    770 feet
    Q22 Q121 QM17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. Q121 …
  3. QM17 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge at Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge & Beach 92nd Street, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1-09 Beach 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.2 miles

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)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
5 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 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 1972.

Trees

Sixteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the bald cypress.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Blanche Community Progress Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    800 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Garden By The Bay Garden
    340 feet
  2. Bayswater Park
    880 feet
  3. Far Rock Urban Agro-Education Center Garden
    1,030 feet
Show all 6
  1. Edgemere Urban Renewal Park
    1,040 feet
  2. Rockaway Community Park
    1,110 feet
  3. Edgemere Farm Garden
    1,250 feet

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 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:

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