Beach Channel Drive & Beach 126th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 126th Street meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Patricia A. Brackley Park is 660 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 127 St, is 0.4 miles away for the QM16, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge
1.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 127 St · QM16
Within a walk
2 places
2 parks, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 126th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 127 St, 0.4 miles away, for the QM16.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 127 St QM16
    0.4 miles
    QM16

Next buses at this stop

  1. QM16 …

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, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 115-05 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 248 Beach 116th Street Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.

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 four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2023 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 126th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MAY 15 - SEPT 30 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS

West side of Beach 126th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MAY 15 - SEPT 30 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Patricia A. Brackley Park
    660 feet
  2. Beach Channel Park
    660 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 126th 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.