Beach Channel Drive & Beach 44th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 44th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Far Rock Urban Agro-Education Center is 270 feet away, and Arverne East Nature Preserve is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 44 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 44 St
1,070 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 44 St · Q22, Q121, QM17
Within a walk
20 places
9 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 44th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 44 St, 1,070 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 44 St A
    1,070 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, 60 feet away, for the Q22, Q121 and QM17.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 44 St Q22, Q121, QM17
    60 feet
    Q22 Q121 QM17

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, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.3 miles
  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 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022
  • Turn calming, May 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 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
5 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 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Since 2014 at least 228 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2023 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Beach 44th Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 3 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

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 nature area
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Far Rock Urban Agro-Education Center Garden
    270 feet
  2. Edgemere Urban Renewal Park
    280 feet
  3. Edgemere Farm Garden
    490 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Garden By The Bay Garden
    1,100 feet
  2. Arverne East Nature Preserve Nature area
    1,110 feet
  3. Conch Playground
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. Rockaway Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,140 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Beach 41st Community Center
    1,310 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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 44th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.