Rockaway Freeway & Beach 25th Street

Rockaway Freeway and Beach 25th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 12,888 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Knowledge and Power Preparatory Academy VI is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 25 St, is about a minute on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them schools, and one place to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 25 St
60 feet · 1 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Beach Channel Dr/Beach 25 St · Q121
Within a walk
10 places
6 schools, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Freeway & Beach 25th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 25 St, 60 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Beach 25 St A
    60 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Beach 36 St A
    0.5 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Past/Present/Future” (2011) by Mauricio Lopez at the Beach 25 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Beach Channel Dr/Beach 25 St, 300 feet away, for the Q121.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beach Channel Dr/Beach 25 St Q121
    300 feet
    Q121

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q121 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

  1. 38-01 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 20-38 Seagirt Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 12,888 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 44th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 4,203 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

Fourteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

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

East side of Beach 25th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Beach 25th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Academy of Medical Technology: a College Board School
    930 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Academy VI High School
    930 feet
  3. Knowledge and Power Preparatory Academy VI School
    930 feet
Show all 6
  1. Queens High School for Information, Research, and Technology School
    930 feet
  2. Challenge Preparatory Charter School
    930 feet
  3. Wave Preparatory Elementary School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grassmere Playground
    700 feet

Health care

  1. Bezalel Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and five 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 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 25th Street or Rockaway Freeway.

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