Beach Channel Drive & Beach 104th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 104th Street meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 3,534 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Channel View School for Research is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 105 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, five of them schools.

Safety record
3 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 105 St
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Beach 104 St/Rockaway Freeway · Q11, Q22, Q35
Within a walk
7 places
5 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 104th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 105 St, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beach 105 St A, S
    1,000 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 98 St A, S
    0.4 miles
    A S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Vast” (2011) by Callie Hirsch at the Beach 105 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach 104 St/Rockaway Freeway, 230 feet away, for the Q11, Q22 and Q35.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 104 St/Rockaway Freeway Q11, Q22, Q35
    230 feet
    Q11 Q22 Q35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q11 …
  2. Q22 …
  3. Q35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks 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, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-17 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1,090 feet
  2. 101-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,534 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 244th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,766 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Beach Channel Drive2,9541,400
Westbound on Beach Channel Drive580366
Total3,5341,766

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11694
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2002 and 2006.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Skyline' thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 104th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Scholars' Academy School
    490 feet
  2. 3-K at the Lyfe Program at Beach Channel Campus Pre-K
    1,160 feet
  3. Channel View School for Research School
    1,160 feet
Show all 6
  1. Rockaway Collegiate High School
    1,160 feet
  2. Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability School
    1,160 feet
  3. United Charter High School for the Humanities LV School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayside Playground
    140 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    590 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 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, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 104th Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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