Beach Channel Drive & Beach 56th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 56th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's Ocean Bay Apartments (Oceanside) development. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Goldie Maple Academy is 360 feet away, and Arverne Post Office is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 60 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, two of them community centers, and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 60 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 54 St · Q22
Within a walk
11 places
2 community centers, 2 playgrounds and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 56th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 60 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 60 St A
    0.3 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, 50 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 54 St Q22 · Shelter
    50 feet
    Q22
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Beach Channel Drive.

  • 8 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, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2022.

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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 1,600 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 1960 and 1964.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Sugartyme' crabapple.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 community centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Goldie Maple Academy School
    360 feet
  2. Bethel Emanuel Temple Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    530 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Arverne Gardens Garden
    580 feet
  2. Rockaway Community Park
    590 feet
  3. Arverne Playground
    800 feet
Show all 4
  1. Cardozo Playground
    900 feet

Health care

  1. Lawrence Nursing Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    930 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arverne Library
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Ocean Bay Community Center
    480 feet
  2. Arverne Post Office
    1,070 feet
  3. Ocean Side Apartments Community Center
    1,130 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 56th 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.