Newport Avenue & Beach 144th Street

Newport Avenue and Beach 144th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. West End Temple is 990 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St, is 1,310 feet away for the Q35, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,310 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St · Q35
Within a walk
3 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Newport Avenue & Beach 144th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St, 1,310 feet away, for the Q35.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 145 St Q35
    1,310 feet
    Q35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q35 …

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
    1.4 miles
  2. 248 Beach 116th Street Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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

  • 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 144th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30

West side of Beach 144th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30

South side of Newport Avenue

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

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jacob Riis Park
    850 feet

Houses of worship

  1. West End Temple Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 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 144th Street or Newport Avenue.

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