Cronston Avenue & Beach 134th Street

Cronston Avenue and Beach 134th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner is also named Clare Droesch Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S./M.S. 114 Belle Harbor is 290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 133 St, is 0.3 miles away for the Q35, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them schools.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
1.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 133 St · Q35
Within a walk
3 places
2 schools and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cronston Avenue & Beach 134th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 133 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Q35.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 133 St Q35
    0.3 miles
    Q35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge at Beach Channel Drive, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 115-05 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 248 Beach 116th Street Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2022.

About this corner

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

This corner is also named Clare Droesch Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1930 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Clare Droesch Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cronston Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MAY 15 - SEPT 30 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS

South side of Cronston Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MAY 15 - SEPT 30 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./M.S. 114 Belle Harbor School
    290 feet
  2. Mercaz Hatorah of Belle Harbor School
    1,280 feet

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 134th Street or Cronston Avenue.

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