Beach Channel Drive & Beach 39th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 39th Street meet at a three-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Beach 41st Community Center is 210 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 36 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1972 and 1976, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 36 St
1,120 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 40 St · Q22
Within a walk
17 places
11 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 39th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 36 St, 1,120 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 36 St A
    1,120 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …
Far Rockaway
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. Beach 44 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Convergence 1&2” (2011) by George Bates at the Beach 36 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 40 St, 310 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 40 St Q22
    310 feet
    Q22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Beach Channel Drive.

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, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    250 feet
  2. 1-09 Beach 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    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 March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11691
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
101
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1972 and 1976.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 39th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Community Parents Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    440 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc Comm Parent Far Ro School
    560 feet
  3. Blanche Community Progress Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayswater Park
    790 feet
  2. The Healing Garden
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gertrudes Church House of worship
    310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Beach 41st Community Center
    210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 39th Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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