438 Beach Channel Drive
Class B
Class C
12 months to Sep 2026
rent-stabilized with
DHCR (most recent year)
units (PLUTO)
12 months through June 2026
rent
min walk
(311 complaints)
errands grade
nearby
Top insights
- Fewer open HPD violations than ~72% of buildings in this ZIP (3 open)
- Fewer HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (0 vs ~14)
- Built in 1976 (city records)
About this building
City records list 1976 as the year built — newer than 82% of the 121 buildings we cover in ZIP 11691. 359 apartments — more than 93% of the 121 residential buildings we cover in ZIP 11691 have.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 18, 2026.
438 Beach Channel Drive
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- This is NYCHA public housing, so HPD’s violation database isn’t the maintenance record — ask the management office for this unit’s open work-order history and average repair time.
438 Beach Channel Drive sits in Queens, ZIP 11691. The closest subway is Beach 36 St (A) (5-minute walk), served by the A line.
Building Condition
Issued March 2003. HPD marks a violation open until it is certified as corrected, so an old date can mean an unresolved condition or a repair that was never certified.
- 2003-03-20
- 2003-03-20
- 2003-03-20
- Class B · 3 open · penalty 15 · (5/ea)
- 2026-08-03
- 2026-07-21
- 2024-07-16
- 2024-06-23 "FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 - MULTIPLE YEARS (2023)"
- 2023-04-22 "FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 - MULTIPLE YEARS (2022)"
- 2022-08-21 "FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 - MULTIPLE YEARS (2021)"
No HPD lead-paint violations on record. Built 1976. For buildings built between 1960 and 1978, Local Law 1 applies where the owner knows lead-based paint is present — there is no automatic pre-1960 presumption. Lead paint in residential use was federally banned in 1978.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- HARRASSMENT 2: 57
- PETIT LARCENY: 33
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 28
- MISCELLANEOUS PENAL LAW: 17
- FELONY ASSAULT: 13
- Noise - Residential: 32
- Illegal Parking: 11
- Snow or Ice: 8
- Blocked Driveway: 6
- Street Sweeping Complaint: 3
- 3801 BEACH CHANNEL DRIVE
- 3801 BEACH CHANNEL DRIVE
- 3801 BEACH CHANNEL DR
- Lighthouse Elementary School
- Challenge Preparatory Charter School
- P.S. 105 The Bay School
- Challenge Preparatory Charter School
- P.S. 105 The Bay School
- Knowledge and Power Preparatory Academy VI
- Academy of Medical Technology: A College Board Sch
- Frederick Douglass Academy VI High School
- Queens High School for Information, Research, and
Levels add up to 11 because a school serving K-8 is listed under both Elementary and Middle. 8 distinct schools are within range.
- Beach 36 St
- Beach 44 St
- Grade A
- Kids-Centric, Inc Comm Parent Far Ro
- Edgemere Coalition
- Garden
- Edgemere Urban Renewal Park
- Bayswater Park
- Lighthouse Elementary School
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Verizon Fiber Up to 2,300 Mbps down · 2,300 Mbps up
- Spectrum Cable Up to 1,000 Mbps down · 1,000 Mbps up
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Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection (NY, rev. May 2026). Wired broadband only — cable + fiber. DSL, satellite, and fixed-wireless not included. Block-level data; actual availability may vary by building.
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