Briar Place & Collier Avenue

Briar Place and Collier Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Grassmere Playground is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 25 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and one place to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1963, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 25 St
1,070 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 25 St · Q121
Within a walk
3 places
1 playground, 1 religious building and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Briar Place & Collier Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 25 St, 1,070 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 25 St A
    1,070 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 “Past/Present/Future” (2011) by Mauricio Lopez at the Beach 25 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 25 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Q121.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 25 St Q121
    0.3 miles
    Q121

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q121 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 13-46 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 20-38 Seagirt Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11691
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
101
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Far Rockaway-Bayswater
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the mulberry and the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Briar Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of Collier Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Collier Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Wave Preparatory Elementary School
    510 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grassmere Playground
    40 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Briar Place or Collier Avenue.

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