Bard Avenue & Mathews Avenue

Bard Avenue and Mathews Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Robert H. Lynch, Jr. Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Bard Av, is 0.3 miles away for the S48, S98 and SIM30. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1955, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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Bard Avenue & Mathews Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Bard Av, 0.3 miles away, for the S48, S98 and SIM30.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Bard Av S48, S98, SIM30 · Countdown sign
    0.3 miles
    S48 S98 SIM30
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …
  2. S98 …
  3. SIM30 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 525 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.3 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

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
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
213 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Robert H. Lynch, Jr. Way, a co-naming enacted on January 7, 2003 (Local Law 6 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Robert H. Lynch, Jr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in October 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Bard Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

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
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

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