14-56 Beach Channel Drive, Queens
An elevator apartment building on Beach Channel Drive carrying 1.2 FAR of unused residential development rights on record on a 2,196,584 sq ft lot, zoned R5.
14-56 Beach Channel Drive is an elevator apartment building in Queens, New York City (BBL 4155010002). The property is zoned R5, on a 2,196,584 sq ft lot, with 6 floors and 604 residential units. It was built in 1952. The lot is inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area. NYC municipal records show 45 open building violations for this lot as of 2026-07-05.
Property facts
| BBL | 4155010002 |
|---|---|
| Borough | Queens — Community District 14 |
| Neighborhood | Far Rockaway-Bayswater |
| Zoning district | R5 |
| Building class | D3 — elevator apartment building (what’s a building class?) |
| Land use | 03 — Multi-family elevator buildings |
| Lot area | 2,196,584 sq ft |
| Floors | 6 |
| Residential units | 604 |
| Year built | 1952 |
| FAR | 0.3 built · 1.5 max residential · 0 max commercial Learn: What is FAR? |
| Flood zone | In a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area |
Public records
- 26 open Department of Buildings violations
- 3 open ECB (OATH) violations
- 16 open Housing Preservation & Development violations
- Façade safety filing status: UNSAFE (latest filing 2024-11-15)
Violation counts as of 2026-07-05.
Absence of a record means none on file in NYC municipal records — not a certification of compliance.
The complete dossier also covers:
- Buildable floor area (residential & commercial)
- Recorded ownership & last sale
- Recorded mortgages & open debt stack
- LL97 carbon exposure by compliance period
- Flood coverage percentage & base flood elevation
- Climate projections for this lot
- Open permits & construction pipeline
- Distress signal convergence
- Air rights & transferable development rights
- Comparable sales (Pro)
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Data: NYC municipal records (Departments of City Planning, Buildings, Finance) and FEMA. See our sources and methodology. Data as of 2026-07-11.