Beach 69th Street & Thursby Avenue

Beach 69th Street and Thursby Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner is also named Justin Wallace Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Almeda Playground is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 67 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them religious buildings, and two places to eat. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
7 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 67 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 69 St · Q22
Within a walk
9 places
5 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach 69th Street & Thursby Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 67 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 67 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 “On and Off the Boardwalk” (2011) by Ingo Fast at the Beach 67 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 69 St, 780 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 69 St Q22
    780 feet
    Q22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …

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, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.6 miles
  2. 101-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1.7 miles
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11692
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
100
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
5 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Justin Wallace Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Justin Wallace Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Thursby Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Thursby Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Battalion Christian Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet
  2. P.S./M.s 042 R. Vernam School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Almeda Playground
    1,220 feet

Health care

  1. Resort Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places 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 and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 69th Street or Thursby 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.