Bard Avenue & Thames Avenue

Bard Avenue and Thames Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Alfred J. Braca Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Silver Lake Park is 1,170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Bard Av, is 0.3 miles away for the S48, S98 and SIM30. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Forest Av/Bard Av · S48, S98, SIM30
Within a walk
1 place
1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bard Avenue & Thames Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

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

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 September 2019.

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
219 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Alfred J. Braca 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Alfred J. Braca Way.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Silver Lake Park
    1,170 feet

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 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 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bard Avenue or Thames 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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.