Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Beach 96th Street

Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 96th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner is also named Sandee & Jate Doremus Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Peninsula Library is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 98 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 98 St
860 feet · 3 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 96 St · Q53 SBS
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Beach 96th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 98 St, 860 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beach 98 St A, S
    860 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. Beach 90 St A, S
    0.3 miles
    A S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Be Good or Be Gone” (2011) by Duke Riley at the Beach 98 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 96 St, 60 feet away, for the Q53 SBS.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 96 St Q53 SBS
    60 feet
    Q53 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q53 SBS …

Live arrivals

Rockaway Beach Boulevard carries a bus lane, 7am to 10pm and 3pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 13 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, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-17 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 101-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11693
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sandee & Jate Doremus Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1999 and 2004.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the goldenrain tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sandee & Jate Doremus Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 96th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Beach 96th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Rockaway Beach Boulevard

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Rockaway Beach Boulevard

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 3PM-7PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Rockaway Beach Boulevard at Beach 94th Street.

  1. Rockaway Veterans Memorial Statue by Joseph Pasquale Pollia, 1927
    360 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. District 27 Pre-K Center at 185 Beach 99th Street Pre-K center
    1,090 feet
  2. Vip IV Daycare Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rockaway Beach Boardwalk Park
    700 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Peninsula Library
    630 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Camillus St Virgillus RC Church House of worship
    960 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 320 Beach 94th Street Older adult center
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 266 Fire station
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and six 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 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.