Beach Channel Drive & Beach 127th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 127th Street meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Patricia A. Brackley Park is 940 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 four public places, two of them parks, and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 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
4 places
2 parks, 1 religious building and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 127th 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
    0.7 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 two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

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 300 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 1935 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in April 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Beach 127th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MAY 15 - SEPT 30 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Mercaz Hatorah of Belle Harbor School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Patricia A. Brackley Park
    940 feet
  2. Beach Channel Park
    940 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 nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 127th 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.