Beach Channel Drive & Rockaway Freeway at Beach 79th Street

Beach Channel Drive, Rockaway Freeway and Beach 79th Street meet at a six-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 1,146 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula is 620 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 67 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 67 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
1,060 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 77 St · Q22, QM15, QM17
Within a walk
4 places
1 nature area, 1 playground and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 67 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 67 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 “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, 1,060 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
    1,060 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

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,146 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 693rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 506 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Westbound on Beach Channel Drive882333
Eastbound on Beach Channel Drive264173
Total1,146506

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11692
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
100
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 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 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 58 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and December 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Beach Channel Drive (west side).

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

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Bus layover only 2 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Beach Channel Drive

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-8PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 454120, 455829 and 462374.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Beach Channel Playground
    480 feet
  2. Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula Nature area
    620 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 79th Street, Beach Channel Drive or Rockaway Freeway.

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