Beach Channel Drive & Beach 97th Street

Beach Channel Drive and Beach 97th Street meet at a three-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Channel View School for Research is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 98 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 98 St
710 feet · 3 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
980 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 101 St · Q22
Within a walk
6 places
4 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Beach 97th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 98 St, 710 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beach 98 St A, S
    710 feet
    A S

Next trains at this station

Inbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …
Rockaway Park
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …

Also within a walk

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Be Good or Be Gone” (2011) by Duke Riley at the Beach 98 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 101 St, 980 feet away, for the Q22.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 101 St Q22
    980 feet
    Q22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack 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, 1,150 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11693
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 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 1969 and 2001.

Trees

Five trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the 'City Sprite' zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in November 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Channel View School for Research School
    1,230 feet
  2. 3-K at the Lyfe Program at Beach Channel Campus Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  3. Rockaway Collegiate High School
    1,230 feet
Show all 5
  1. Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability School
    1,230 feet
  2. United Charter High School for the Humanities LV School
    1,230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and five food stores.

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 corners on foot, one of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 97th Street or Beach Channel Drive.

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