51-32 Beach Channel Drive, Queens
Inside a FEMA-mapped flood zone, this elevator apartment building on Beach Channel Drive carries 0.01 FAR of unused residential development rights on record.
51-32 Beach Channel Drive is an elevator apartment building in Queens, New York City (BBL 4160010002). The property is zoned R4, on a 590,344 sq ft lot, with 9 floors and 582 residential units. It was built in 1963. The lot is inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area. NYC municipal records show 79 open building violations for this lot as of 2026-07-05.
Property facts
| BBL | 4160010002 |
|---|---|
| Borough | Queens — Community District 14 |
| Neighborhood | Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere |
| Zoning district | R4 |
| Building class | D3 — elevator apartment building (what’s a building class?) |
| Land use | 03 — Multi-family elevator buildings |
| Lot area | 590,344 sq ft |
| Floors | 9 |
| Residential units | 582 |
| Year built | 1963 |
| FAR | 0.99 built · 1 max residential · 0 max commercial Learn: What is FAR? |
| Flood zone | In a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area |
Public records
- 27 open Department of Buildings violations
- 0 open ECB (OATH) violations
- 52 open Housing Preservation & Development violations
- Façade safety filing status: SWARMP (latest filing 2024-02-21)
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)
Data: NYC municipal records (Departments of City Planning, Buildings, Finance) and FEMA. See our sources and methodology. Data as of 2026-07-11.