Beach Channel Drive & Beach 144th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 144th Street meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens, at the edge of Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Jacob Riis Park is under 10 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St, is 0.4 miles away for the Q35, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St · Q35
Within a walk
1 place
1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 144th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St, 0.4 miles away, for the Q35.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St Q35
    0.4 miles
    Q35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q35 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge at Beach Channel Drive, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 115-05 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 248 Beach 116th Street Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    1.7 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 December 2024.

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)
Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel; the corner is on the edge of the Jacob Riis Park-Fort Tilden-Breezy Point Tip area
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane

Homes

About 130 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 1930 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 144th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Beach 144th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jacob Riis Park
    under 10 feet

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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 144th 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 and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.