Real Estate For Sale: Search Beechhurst, NY

Beechhurst is a sub-area of Whitestone in Northeastern Queens. Beechhurst was originally a tract of 135 un-developed acres used as a residential park in 1906 by the Shore Acres Realty Company.

In the 1920s Beechhurst attracted many theater folk, including the producer Arthur Hammerstein, whose house was later made a landmark. The Whitestone branch of the Long Island Rail Road offered convenient commuter service until the Depression. In the 1960's when large apartment buildings were erected east of 162nd Street and on the shore of the East River, on land by then considered part of the neighborhood.

Beechhurst is not considered a separate neighborhood by the city but rather as a part of Whitestone, and Beechhurst's boundaries are: To the north by the East River, to the east by 162nd Street, to the south by Cryder's Lane, and to the west by 154th Street.

Beechhurst's zip code is 11357, which also includes Whitestone, Malba, and a part of Flushing.  It is represented as District 19. Beechhurst is part of the 109th police precinct and is part of Queens Community Board 7. The Q15 via 150th Street to Beechhurst provides access to and from the Flushing-Main Street station on the IRT Flushing Line.