Beach Channel Drive & Beach 79th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 79th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 183 Dr. Richard R. Green is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 67 St, is about nine minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 2004 and 2005, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Beach 67 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
820 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 77 St · Q22, QM15, QM17
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 1 garden and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 79th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 67 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 67 St A
    0.5 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Beach 90 St A, S
    0.5 miles
    A S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “On and Off the Boardwalk” (2011) by Ingo Fast at the Beach 67 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 77 St, 820 feet away, for the Q22, QM15 and QM17.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 77 St Q22, QM15, QM17
    820 feet
    Q22 QM15 QM17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. QM15 …
  3. QM17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-17 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 101-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11693
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
100
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
5 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2004 and 2005.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Beach 79th Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 183 Dr. Richard R. Green School
    280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Beach Channel Playground
    230 feet
  2. Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula Nature area
    860 feet
  3. We Rose In Together Community Garden - Hammel Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

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 79th Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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