Amboy Road & Wood Avenue

Amboy Road and Wood Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Tottenville-Charleston, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. In 2025, 506 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Our Lady Help of Christians Church is 520 feet away, and P.S. 001 Tottenville is 1,150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Amboy Rd/Brehaut Av, is 1,060 feet away for the SIM26. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
West Shore Expressway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,060 feet
Amboy Rd/Brehaut Av · SIM26
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amboy Road & Wood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amboy Rd/Brehaut Av, 1,060 feet away, for the SIM26.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amboy Rd/Brehaut Av SIM26
    1,060 feet
    SIM26

Next buses at this stop

  1. SIM26 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the West Shore Expressway northbound at Boscombe Avenue, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6937 Amboy Road Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 4350 Arthur Kill Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 506 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,173rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 306 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Westbound on Amboy Road326108
Eastbound on Amboy Road180198
Total506306

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10307
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
123
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tottenville-Charleston
Elevation
71 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Amboy Road

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Wood Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Classical, and built between 1903 and 1904.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Nysarc - Staten Island Prep School
    930 feet
  2. Ahrc NYC School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    970 feet
  3. P.S. 001 Tottenville School
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Tottenville Library Landmark
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Faith Assembly of God Church House of worship
    170 feet
  2. Our Lady Help of Christians Church House of worship
    520 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 151/Ladder 76 Fire station
    1,180 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Amboy Road or Wood Avenue.

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