Rockaway Freeway & Seaside Avenue

Rockaway Freeway and Seaside Avenue 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. Scholars' Academy is 380 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 105 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them schools. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1967 and 2002, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beach 105 St
920 feet · 3 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
570 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 102 St · Q22, Q53 SBS
Within a walk
9 places
5 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Freeway & Seaside Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 105 St, 920 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beach 105 St A, S
    920 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 98 St A, S
    1,140 feet
    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 102 St, 570 feet away, for the Q22 and Q53 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 102 St Q22, Q53 SBS · Shelter
    570 feet
    Q22 Q53 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q22 …
  2. Q53 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 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, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-17 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1,190 feet
  2. 101-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    990 feet
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

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 October 2022.

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

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,000 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 1967 and 2002.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Seaside Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Seaside Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Scholars' Academy School
    380 feet
  2. 3-K at the Lyfe Program at Beach Channel Campus Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  3. Channel View School for Research School
    1,190 feet
Show all 6
  1. Rockaway Collegiate High School
    1,190 feet
  2. Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability School
    1,190 feet
  3. United Charter High School for the Humanities LV School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayside Playground
    360 feet
  2. Rockaway Beach Boardwalk Park
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Camillus St Virgillus RC Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    510 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rockaway Freeway or Seaside Avenue.

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