Bard Avenue & Amelia Court

Bard Avenue and Amelia Court meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Battalion Chief Charles L. Kasper Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Walker Park is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Richmond Terr/Bard Av, is 750 feet away for the S40, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them parks, and one place to eat.

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Bard Avenue & Amelia Court Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Terr/Bard Av, 750 feet away, for the S40.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Terr/Bard Av S40
    750 feet
    S40

Next buses at this stop

  1. S40 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bayonne Bridge at Trantor Place & Bayonne Bridge, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1125 Richmond Terrace Gas station
    900 feet
  2. 54 Central Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    2.2 miles

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10310
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Battalion Chief Charles L. Kasper Way, a co-naming enacted on February 5, 2015 (Local Law 15 of 2015).

The streets

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

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Battalion Chief Charles L. Kasper Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in April 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bard Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Gothic Revival, and built in 1850.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Walker Park
    40 feet
  2. Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park
    570 feet
  3. Walker Park Playground
    900 feet
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  1. Rose Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dr. Samuel Mackenzie Elliott House Listed historic place
    760 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

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