Beach Channel Drive & Beach 101st Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 101st Street meet at a three-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Channel View School for Research is 280 feet away, and United Charter High School for the Humanities LV is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 98 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, five of them schools.

Safety record
5 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 98 St
1,110 feet · 4 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 101 St · Q22
Within a walk
8 places
5 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 101st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 98 St, 1,110 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beach 98 St A, S
    1,110 feet
    A S

Next trains at this station

Inbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …
Rockaway Park
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Beach 105 St A, S
    0.3 miles
    A S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Be Good or Be Gone” (2011) by Duke Riley at the Beach 98 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 101 St, 90 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 101 St Q22
    90 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, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-17 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    190 feet
  2. 101-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1,220 feet
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11694
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 four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 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 1969 and 2002.

Trees

Ten trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the goldenrain tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Beach 101st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Channel View School for Research School
    280 feet
  2. 3-K at the Lyfe Program at Beach Channel Campus Pre-K
    280 feet
  3. Rockaway Collegiate High School
    280 feet
Show all 6
  1. Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability School
    280 feet
  2. United Charter High School for the Humanities LV School
    280 feet
  3. Scholars' Academy School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayside Playground
    510 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Camillus St Virgillus RC Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 101st Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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.