Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Beach 108th Street

Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 108th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner is also named Ava Conklin Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Park at Beach 108 Street is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 105 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them parks, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 105 St
1,040 feet · 4 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 108 St · Q22, Q53 SBS
Within a walk
8 places
3 parks, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Beach 108th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 105 St, 1,040 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beach 105 St A, S
    1,040 feet
    A S

Next trains at this station

Inbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …
Rockaway Park
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St A, S
    0.5 miles
    A S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Vast” (2011) by Callie Hirsch at the Beach 105 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 108 St, 110 feet away, for the Q22 and Q53 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 108 St Q22, Q53 SBS
    110 feet
    Q22 Q53 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. Q53 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Rockaway Beach Boulevard.

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 112-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 108-10 Rockaway Beach Drive Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    210 feet
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

About this corner

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

This corner is also named Ava Conklin Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 700 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 1931 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Glauca' eastern red cedar.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2021 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 108th Street

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Beach 108th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Rockaway Beach Boulevard

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Rockaway Beach Boulevard

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Waterside School for Leadership School
    700 feet
  2. Waterside Children's Studio School Pre-K
    700 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Seaside Playground
    340 feet
  2. Rockaway Beach Boardwalk Park
    720 feet
  3. Park at Beach 108 Street Park
    870 feet
Show all 5
  1. Sandpiper Playground
    880 feet
  2. Rockaway Beach Park
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    390 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. Rockaway Ferry Landing
    1,010 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 108th Street or Rockaway Beach Boulevard.

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