Church Road & Noel Road

Church Road and Noel Road meet at a four-way crossing in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner is also named Chief Christian Hoobs Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. St Virgilius RC Church is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Broad Channel, is about three minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Broad Channel
670 feet · 3 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Cross Bay Blvd/Noel Rd · Q11, Q52 SBS, Q53 SBS, Q109 +4
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 1 monument or memorial and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Church Road & Noel Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Broad Channel, 670 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Broad Channel A, S
    670 feet
    A S

Next trains at this station

Inbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …
Rockaways
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cross Bay Blvd/Noel Rd, 280 feet away, for the Q11, Q52 SBS, Q53 SBS, Q109 and four more.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cross Bay Blvd/Noel Rd Q11, Q52 SBS, Q53 SBS, Q109 +4
    280 feet
    Q11 Q52 SBS Q53 SBS Q109 Q121 QM15 QM16 QM17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q11 …
  2. Q52 SBS …
  3. Q53 SBS …
  4. Q109 …
  5. Q121 …
  6. QM15 …
  7. QM16 …
  8. QM17 …

Live arrivals

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11693
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Elevation
5 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Chief Christian Hoobs Way, a co-naming enacted on December 1, 2017 (Local Law 237 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1935.

Trees

Twenty trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Chief Christian Hoobs Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2014 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Church Road

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT

West side of Church Road

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Noel Road

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Noel Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 047 Chris Galas School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gene Gray Playground
    730 feet
  2. Broad Channel Wetlands Nature area
    940 feet
  3. Broad Channel Veteran's Park
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. George Riekers Veterans Memorial Monument or memorial
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Virgilius RC Church House of worship
    100 feet

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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Church Road or Noel Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18–30, 2026.