Buffalo Street & Emmet Avenue

Buffalo Street and Emmet Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Oakwood-Richmondtown, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Christ Church is 510 feet away. The Bay Terrace station on the SIR is about ten minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1965 and 1970, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

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Buffalo Street & Emmet Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Bay Terrace, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Terrace SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.5 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hylan Blvd/Buffalo St, 600 feet away, for the S78, S79 SBS, SIM1, SIM1C and five more.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hylan Blvd/Buffalo St S78, S79 SBS, SIM1, SIM1C +5 · Shelter
    600 feet
    S78 S79 SBS SIM1 SIM1C SIM5 SIM6 SIM7 SIM9 SIM10
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. S78 …
  2. S79 SBS …
  3. SIM1 …
  4. SIM1C …
  5. SIM5 …
  6. SIM6 …
  7. SIM7 …
  8. SIM9 …
  9. SIM10 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 3701 Amboy Road Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2.5 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 October 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10306
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Oakwood-Richmondtown
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

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 1965 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in June 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Buffalo Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nature area

Schools and child care

  1. Cbi Academy Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Great Kills Park Nature area
    630 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Church House of worship
    510 feet
  2. Congregation Bnai Israel House of worship
    1,020 feet

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 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 Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.