Shore Front Parkway & Beach Front Road

Shore Front Parkway and Beach Front Road meet at a three-way junction in Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere, Queens. The corner is also named Alvin Benjamin Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk is 210 feet away. The nearest subway, Beach 67 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them parks. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1968 and 2003, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Beach 67 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 73 St · Q52 SBS
Within a walk
4 places
2 parks, 1 playground and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Shore Front Parkway & Beach Front Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beach 67 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Beach 67 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “On and Off the Boardwalk” (2011) by Ingo Fast at the Beach 67 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 73 St, 940 feet away, for the Q52 SBS.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 73 St Q52 SBS
    940 feet
    Q52 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q52 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Beach Front Road and Shore Front Parkway.

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, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-17 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 101-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 248 Beach 116th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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 and 32 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
100
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Alvin Benjamin Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1968 and 2003.

Trees

Eight trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Alvin Benjamin Way.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rockaway Beach Boardwalk Park
    180 feet
  2. Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk Park
    210 feet
  3. Rockaway Beach Playground
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach Front Road or Shore Front Parkway.

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