Beach 59th Street & Larkin Avenue

Beach 59th Street and Larkin Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's FHA Repossessed Houses (Group X) development. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 60 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are six public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 60 St
640 feet · 2 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Beach 59 St/Rockaway FWY · Q121
Within a walk
6 places
1 career or business center, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach 59th Street & Larkin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 60 St, 640 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 60 St A
    640 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Beach 67 St A
    0.5 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Beaches of New York City” (2011) by Simon Levenson at the Beach 60 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach 59 St/Rockaway FWY, 670 feet away, for the Q121.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 59 St/Rockaway FWY Q121
    670 feet
    Q121

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q121 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

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, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 1-09 Beach 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.9 miles
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten 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 September 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11692
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
100 and 101 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 in 1974.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's FHA Repossessed Houses (Group X) development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the eastern redcedar.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Beach 59th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Lucille Rose Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    90 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Beach 59th St Playground
    510 feet
  2. Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk Park
    630 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 57-17 Shore Front Parkway Older adult center
    580 feet
  2. Rockaway Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    580 feet
  3. Arverne Post Office
    1,070 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 59th Street or Larkin Avenue.

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