8th Street & Princeton Avenue

The four-way crossing of 8th Street and Princeton Avenue is in New Dorp-Midland Beach, Staten Island, and is also named Lucy Ferreri Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. New Dorp Park is 440 feet away. The New Dorp station on the SIR is about eight minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1955 and 1988, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
New Dorp
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Amboy Rd/Beach Av · S57, SIM15
Within a walk
1 place
1 nature area, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Street & Princeton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is New Dorp, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. New Dorp SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Also within a walk

  1. Oakwood Heights SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.5 miles
    SIR

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Creeping on Where Time Has Been” (2023) by Keri Sheheen at the New Dorp station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amboy Rd/Beach Av, 0.3 miles away, for the S57 and SIM15.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amboy Rd/Beach Av S57, SIM15
    0.3 miles
    S57 SIM15

Next buses at this stop

  1. S57 …
  2. SIM15 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 105 New Dorp Lane Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.8 miles
  3. 920 Father Capodanno Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10306
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
New Dorp-Midland Beach
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Lucy Ferreri Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1955 and 1988.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lucy Ferreri Way.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. New Dorp Park Nature area
    440 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Tysens Park Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. The Boulevard Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Not on record for this corner:

  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 8th Street or Princeton Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.