Beach 44th Street & Norton Avenue

Beach 44th Street and Norton Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Garden By The Bay is 510 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 44 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them parks. About 170 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two. Five trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Beach 44 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
1,200 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 44 St · Q22, Q121, QM17
Within a walk
6 places
2 parks, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach 44th Street & Norton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 44 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 44 St A
    0.4 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, 1,200 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
    1,200 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 1-09 Beach 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.2 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)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
4 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 170 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

Five trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Norton Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Blanche Community Progress Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Garden By The Bay Garden
    510 feet
  2. Rockaway Community Park
    680 feet
  3. Bayswater Park
    790 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, 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 44th Street or Norton Avenue.

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.