Bard Avenue & Wales Place

Bard Avenue and Wales Place meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Snug Harbor Cultural Center is 840 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Richmond Terr/Bard Av, is 1,230 feet away for the S40, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them parks. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1961, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Bard Avenue & Wales Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Terr/Bard Av, 1,230 feet away, for the S40.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Terr/Bard Av S40
    1,230 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, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, the median for a Staten Island corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2023.

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
17 feet above sea level

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 1930 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the pin oak.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Walker Park
    400 feet
  2. Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park
    840 feet
  3. New York Chinese Scholar's Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dr. Samuel Mackenzie Elliott House Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is 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
  • 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 corners on foot, six of them 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 Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.