Beechhurst is a neighborhood in northeastern Queens, lying within Whitestone. It began as a tract of 135 acres (fifty-five hectares) bounded 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 and laid out as a residential park in 1906 by the Shore Acres Realty Company. Some lots measured only twenty by one hundred feet (six by thirty meters), but more than half were lots of a quarter-acre (ten ares) designed to encourage the construction of larger houses, especially along the shore and to the east. In the 1920s Beechhurst attracted many people active in the theater, 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 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.

Boundaries:

• Northern: East River
• Eastern: 162nd Street
• Southern: Cryder's Lane
• Western: 154th Street

Beechhurst's zip code is 11357, which also contains Whitestone, Malba, and a part of Flushing.  It is represented as District 19

Sights:

Arthur and Dorothy Dalton Hammerstein House