Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Beach 137th Street

Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 137th Street meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Torah and Language Academy is 640 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 137 St, is 50 feet away for the Q35, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 137 St · Q35
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Beach 137th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 137 St, 50 feet away, for the Q35.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 137 St Q35
    50 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, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes 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 November 2021.

About this corner

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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 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 1925 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

East side of Beach 137th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MAY 15 - SEPT 30 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of Beach 137th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MAY 15 - SEPT 30 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

North side of Rockaway Beach Boulevard

  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Rockaway Beach Boulevard

  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Torah and Language Academy School
    640 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rockaway Beach Park
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Ohab Zedek House of worship
    580 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 137th Street or Rockaway Beach Boulevard.

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.