Beach 74th Street & Lighthouse Drive

Beach 74th Street and Lighthouse 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. Rockaway Beach Boardwalk is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 67 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them parks. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1968 and 2004, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 67 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 75 St · Q52 SBS
Within a walk
5 places
2 parks, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach 74th Street & Lighthouse Drive 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 seven 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 Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 75 St, 460 feet away, for the Q52 SBS.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 75 St Q52 SBS
    460 feet
    Q52 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q52 SBS …

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 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 100-17 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 101-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11692
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1968 and 2004.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the thornless honeylocust.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rockaway Beach Boardwalk Park
    480 feet
  2. Rockaway Beach Playground
    620 feet
  3. Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk Park
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    1,230 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
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 74th Street.

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