Beach Channel Drive & Seaside Avenue

Beach Channel Drive and Seaside Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner is also named Midshipman Justin Zemser Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bayside Playground is 70 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 105 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, five of them schools. About 160 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 105 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 101 St · Q22
Within a walk
7 places
5 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Channel Drive & Seaside Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 105 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beach 105 St A, S
    0.3 miles
    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 98 St A, S
    0.3 miles
    A S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Vast” (2011) by Callie Hirsch at the Beach 105 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 101 St, 520 feet away, for the Q22.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11694
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Midshipman Justin Zemser Way, a co-naming enacted on August 3, 2016 (Local Law 92 of 2016).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 160 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Midshipman Justin Zemser Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

South side of Beach Channel Drive

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Seaside Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Seaside Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Scholars' Academy School
    550 feet
  2. 3-K at the Lyfe Program at Beach Channel Campus Pre-K
    700 feet
  3. Channel View School for Research School
    700 feet
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  1. Rockaway Collegiate High School
    700 feet
  2. Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability School
    700 feet
  3. United Charter High School for the Humanities LV School
    700 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayside Playground
    70 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Beach Channel Drive or Seaside Avenue.

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