Shad Creek Road & West 8th Road

Shad Creek Road and West 8th Road meet at a four-way crossing in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Broad Channel Wetlands is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, Broad Channel, is about six minutes on foot, for the A and S. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1935, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Broad Channel
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A, S
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Cross Bay Blvd/Noel Rd · Q52 SBS, Q53 SBS, Q109, Q121 +3
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 1 monument or memorial and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Shad Creek Road & West 8th Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Broad Channel, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Broad Channel A, S
    0.3 miles
    A S

Next trains at this station

Inbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …
Rockaways
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. S …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cross Bay Blvd/Noel Rd, 630 feet away, for the Q52 SBS, Q53 SBS, Q109, Q121 and three more.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cross Bay Blvd/Noel Rd Q52 SBS, Q53 SBS, Q109, Q121 +3
    630 feet
    Q52 SBS Q53 SBS Q109 Q121 QM15 QM16 QM17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q52 SBS …
  2. Q53 SBS …
  3. Q109 …
  4. Q121 …
  5. QM15 …
  6. QM16 …
  7. QM17 …

Live arrivals

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11693
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Elevation
4 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1920 and 1935.

Trees

Ten trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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 February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of West 8th Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 047 Chris Galas School
    530 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Broad Channel Wetlands Nature area
    240 feet
  2. Gene Gray Playground
    630 feet
  3. Broad Channel Veteran's Park
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. George Riekers Veterans Memorial Monument or memorial
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Virgilius RC Church House of worship
    600 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and 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 Shad Creek Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18–30, 2026.