Dickens Street & Healy Avenue

Dickens Street and Healy Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Westbourne Playground is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 25 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 25 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 25 St · Q121
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dickens Street & Healy Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 25 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 25 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …
Far Rockaway
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. Far Rockaway-Mott Av A
    0.5 miles
    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, 0.4 miles away, for the Q121.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q121 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 13-46 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 20-38 Seagirt Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2021.

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
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Dickens Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Dickens Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Healy Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Healy Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Westbourne Playground
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bayswater Jewish Center House of worship
    200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dickens Street or Healy 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.