Beach Channel Drive & Bay 32nd Street

Beach Channel Drive and Bay 32nd Street meet at a five-way junction in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bayswater Park is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 36 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1975 and 2006, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 36 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
1,130 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 35 St · Q22, Q121, QM17
Within a walk
8 places
2 religious buildings, 1 garden and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Bay 32nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 36 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 36 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Beach 25 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Convergence 1&2” (2011) by George Bates at the Beach 36 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 35 St, 1,130 feet away, for the Q22, Q121 and QM17.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 35 St Q22, Q121, QM17
    1,130 feet
    Q22 Q121 QM17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. Q121 …
  3. QM17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Beach Channel Drive.

  • 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, 2.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 20-38 Seagirt Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022
  • Turn calming, September 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2025

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)
Far Rockaway-Bayswater
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 1,200 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 between 1975 and 2006.

Since 2014 at least 154 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and January 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 7 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Challenge Preparatory Charter School
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayswater Park
    60 feet
  2. Bayswater Playground
    290 feet
  3. Norton Basin Natural Resource Area Nature area
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Healing Garden
    1,280 feet

Health care

  1. Bezalel Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    520 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    160 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 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 Bay 32nd Street, Beach 32nd Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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