Cronston Avenue & Beach 142nd Street

Cronston Avenue and Beach 142nd Street meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Jacob Riis Park is 640 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 141 St, is 0.4 miles away for the Q35 and QM16. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 141 St · Q35, QM16
Within a walk
1 place
1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cronston Avenue & Beach 142nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 141 St, 0.4 miles away, for the Q35 and QM16.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 141 St Q35, QM16
    0.4 miles
    Q35 QM16

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q35 …
  2. QM16 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge at Beach Channel Drive, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

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 October 2020.

About this corner

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 200 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 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2023 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 142nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30

West side of Beach 142nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30

South side of Cronston Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jacob Riis Park
    640 feet

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 142nd Street or Cronston Avenue.

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