Beach Channel Drive & Beach 57th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 57th Street meet at a three-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner is also named Dr. Deborah L. Hoyle Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Ocean Bay Community Center is 190 feet away, and Arverne East Nature Preserve is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 60 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them playgrounds, and one place to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 60 St
1,200 feet · 5 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 54 St · Q22
Within a walk
10 places
2 playgrounds, 1 community center and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 57th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 60 St, 1,200 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 60 St A
    1,200 feet
    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, 330 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 54 St Q22 · Shelter
    330 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, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

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 Dr. Deborah L. Hoyle Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Village Green' zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dr. Deborah L. Hoyle Way.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Arverne Gardens Garden
    300 feet
  2. Rockaway Community Park
    310 feet
  3. Cardozo Playground
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. Arverne Playground
    1,080 feet
  2. Arverne East Nature Preserve Nature area
    1,280 feet

Health care

  1. Lawrence Nursing Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Ocean Bay Community Center
    190 feet
  2. Arverne Post Office
    790 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 57th 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 Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.