71-15 Beach Channel Drive, Queens
Inside a FEMA-mapped flood zone, this elevator apartment building on Beach Channel Drive carries 0.41 FAR of unused residential development rights on record.
71-15 Beach Channel Drive is an elevator apartment building in Queens, New York City (BBL 4160830037). The property is zoned R5, on a 142,500 sq ft lot, with 11 floors and 174 residential units. It was built in 1964. The lot is inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area. NYC municipal records show 8 open building violations for this lot as of 2026-07-05.
Property facts
| BBL | 4160830037 |
|---|---|
| Borough | Queens — Community District 14 |
| Neighborhood | Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere |
| Zoning district | R5 |
| Building class | D3 — elevator apartment building (what’s a building class?) |
| Land use | 03 — Multi-family elevator buildings |
| Lot area | 142,500 sq ft |
| Floors | 11 |
| Residential units | 174 |
| Year built | 1964 |
| FAR | 1.09 built · 1.5 max residential · 0 max commercial Learn: What is FAR? |
| Flood zone | In a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area |
Public records
- 6 open Department of Buildings violations
- 0 open ECB (OATH) violations
- 2 open Housing Preservation & Development violations
- Façade safety filing status: UNFILED
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.