Beach Channel Drive & Beach 40th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 40th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bayswater Park is 1,000 feet away, and the Healing Garden is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 36 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 36 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 40 St · Q22
Within a walk
20 places
12 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 40th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 36 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 36 St A
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.3 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, 80 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 40 St Q22
    80 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
    480 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 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2025
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2025

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 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Beach 40th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Beach 40th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Beach Channel Drive

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 1 community center
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayswater Park
    1,000 feet
  2. Far Rock Urban Agro-Education Center Garden
    1,220 feet
  3. Edgemere Urban Renewal Park
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Healing Garden
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gertrudes Church House of worship
    540 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Beach 41st Community Center
    360 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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 40th Street or Beach Channel Drive.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.