Norton Avenue & Beach 38th Street

Norton Avenue and Beach 38th Street meet at a three-way junction in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Norton Basin Natural Resource Area is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 36 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1972 and 1976, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Beach 36 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
980 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 36 St · Q22, Q121, QM17
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 1 community center and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Norton Avenue & Beach 38th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 36 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 36 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Convergence 1&2” (2011) by George Bates at the Beach 36 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 36 St, 980 feet away, for the Q22, Q121 and QM17.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 36 St Q22, Q121, QM17
    980 feet
    Q22 Q121 QM17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. Q121 …
  3. QM17 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge at Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge & Beach 92nd Street, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    670 feet
  2. 1-09 Beach 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.8 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
11691
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
101
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Far Rockaway-Bayswater
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1972 and 1976.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Community Parents Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,170 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc Comm Parent Far Ro School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayswater Park
    60 feet
  2. The Healing Garden
    790 feet
  3. Norton Basin Natural Resource Area Nature area
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gertrudes Church House of worship
    600 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Beach 41st Community Center
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe 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
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 38th Street or Norton Avenue.

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