Beach Channel Drive & Beach 54th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 54th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's Ocean Bay Apartments (Oceanside) development. The corner is also named Pat Simon Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Lawrence Nursing Care Center is 440 feet away, and Rockaway Community Park is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 60 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them playgrounds.

Safety record
9 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 60 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 54 St · Q22, Q52 SBS, QM15
Within a walk
15 places
3 playgrounds, 2 community centers and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 54th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 60 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 60 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Beaches of New York City” (2011) by Simon Levenson at the Beach 60 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 54 St, 70 feet away, for the Q22, Q52 SBS and QM15.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 54 St Q22, Q52 SBS, QM15 · Shelter
    70 feet
    Q22 Q52 SBS QM15
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. Q52 SBS …
  3. QM15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Beach Channel Drive.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

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, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1-09 Beach 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11692
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 is also named Pat Simon Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

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 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Ocean Bay Apartments (Oceanside) development.

Since 2014 at least 431 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Pat Simon Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and January 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 5 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

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Goldie Maple Academy School
    840 feet
  2. Bethel Emanuel Temple Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  3. P.S. 105 the Bay School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rockaway Community Park
    1,010 feet
  2. Arverne Gardens Garden
    1,060 feet
  3. Arverne Playground
    1,070 feet
Show all 6
  1. Conch Playground
    1,070 feet
  2. Rockaway Community Playground
    1,150 feet
  3. Arverne East Nature Preserve Nature area
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. Lawrence Nursing Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    440 feet
  2. Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,040 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arverne Library
    800 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Ocean Side Apartments Community Center
    650 feet
  2. Ocean Bay Community Center
    950 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 54th Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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