Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Beach 56th Place

Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 56th Place meet at a three-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Rockaway Workforce1 Career Center is 510 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 60 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1964 and 1974, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Beach 60 St
770 feet · 3 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
800 feet
Beach 59 St/Rockaway FWY · Q121
Within a walk
13 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 playgrounds and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Beach 56th Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 60 St, 770 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 60 St A
    770 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Beaches of New York City” (2011) by Simon Levenson at the Beach 60 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach 59 St/Rockaway FWY, 800 feet away, for the Q121.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach 59 St/Rockaway FWY Q121
    800 feet
    Q121

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q121 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack 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, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 1-09 Beach 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.6 miles
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    3 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
11692
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
31
Police precinct
101
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
4 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 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 1964 and 1974.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the goldenrain tree and the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in May 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Rockaway Beach Boulevard

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 library
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bethel Emanuel Temple Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    670 feet
  2. Goldie Maple Academy School
    1,060 feet
  3. Lucille Rose Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Arverne East Nature Preserve Nature area
    160 feet
  2. Cardozo Playground
    230 feet
  3. Arverne Playground
    430 feet
Show all 4
  1. Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk Park
    930 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arverne Library
    1,110 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 57-17 Shore Front Parkway Older adult center
    510 feet
  2. Rockaway Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    510 feet
  3. Arverne Post Office
    1,120 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three food stores.

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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 56th Place or Rockaway Beach Boulevard.

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