Beach Channel Drive & Beach 43rd Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 43rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner is also named Don E. Smalls, Sr. Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Edgemere Farm is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 44 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 44 St
1,270 feet · 5 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 44 St · Q22, Q121, QM17
Within a walk
17 places
9 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 43rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 44 St, 1,270 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 44 St A
    1,270 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Beach 36 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Coom Barooom” (2011) by Jill Parisi at the Beach 44 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 44 St, 230 feet away, for the Q22, Q121 and QM17.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 44 St Q22, Q121, QM17 · Shelter
    230 feet
    Q22 Q121 QM17
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. Q121 …
  3. QM17 …

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, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1,160 feet
  2. 1-09 Beach 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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

This corner carries two co-namings: Don E. Smalls, Sr. Way (Local Law 44 of 2023, enacted on March 19, 2023) and Lizzie Ruth Brown Way (Local Law 47 of 2011, enacted on July 11, 2011).

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 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1965 and 2005.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 43rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Beach 43rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Far Rock Urban Agro-Education Center Garden
    540 feet
  2. Edgemere Urban Renewal Park
    540 feet
  3. Edgemere Farm Garden
    750 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Garden By The Bay Garden
    840 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gertrudes Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Beach 41st Community Center
    1,040 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places 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 43rd Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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