Brighton Avenue & Lafayette Avenue

Brighton Avenue and Lafayette Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in St. George-New Brighton, Staten Island. The corner is also named Carmine Granito and William Smith Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Goodhue Park is 70 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Brighton Av/Lafayette Av, is 50 feet away for the S42, and 12 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Brighton Av/Lafayette Av · S42
Within a walk
3 places
1 nature area, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brighton Avenue & Lafayette Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brighton Av/Lafayette Av, 50 feet away, for the S42.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brighton Av/Lafayette Av S42
    50 feet
    S42

Next buses at this stop

  1. S42 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 700 Richmond Terrace Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10301
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
St. George-New Brighton
Elevation
125 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Carmine Granito and William Smith Way, a co-naming enacted on December 17, 2013 (Local Law 131 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

Eighteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Carmine Granito and William Smith Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Brighton Avenue

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jones Woods Park Nature area
    50 feet
  2. Goodhue Park
    70 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Assumption Parish House of worship
    930 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brighton Avenue or Lafayette 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.