Chapel Road & Melville Road

Chapel Road and Melville Road meet at a four-way crossing in Snug Harbor, Staten Island. The corner stands inside Snug Harbor Cultural Center. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Veterans Memorial Hall is 210 feet away, and Administration Building (Building "C") stands 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Richmond Terr/Sailors Snug Harbor Gate, is 1,090 feet away for the S40, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them park features, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Bayonne Bridge
3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,090 feet
Richmond Terr/Sailors Snug Harbor Gate · S40
Within a walk
15 places
6 park features, 2 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Chapel Road & Melville Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Terr/Sailors Snug Harbor Gate, 1,090 feet away, for the S40.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Terr/Sailors Snug Harbor Gate S40
    1,090 feet
    S40

Next buses at this stop

  1. S40 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bayonne Bridge at Trantor Place & Bayonne Bridge, 3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 700 Richmond Terrace Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 54 Central Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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)
Snug Harbor
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane

Homes

About 130 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 1901 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 181 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the eastern white pine.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are eight Individual Landmarks, and nine buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Greek Revival. They were built between 1800 and 1880.

  1. Sailors' Snug Harbor, Building E Designated landmark
    430 feet
  2. Sailors' Snug Harbor, Building D Designated landmark
    490 feet
  3. Administration Building (Building "C") Designated landmark
    570 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest at Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

  1. Neptune Fountain Fountain
    400 feet
  2. Icon II Sculpture by Seena Donneson, 1980
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 park features
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 museums
  • 2 theaters or concert halls
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 2 other places

This corner stands inside Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

Schools and child care

  1. Children's Harbor Montessori School Pre-K
    590 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. Lillian Beyer Schwartz Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    400 feet
  3. Weissglass Gazebo in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    710 feet
Show all 7
  1. Eleanor Proske Visitors Center in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    720 feet
  2. Herb Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    830 feet
  3. White Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    920 feet
  4. Rose Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Noble Maritime Collection Museum
    590 feet
  2. Staten Island Museum
    860 feet
  3. Neville House Listed historic place
    880 feet
Show all 4
  1. Sailors’ Snug Harbor District Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Veterans Memorial Hall Theater or concert hall · landmark
    210 feet
  2. Snug Harbor Music Hall Theater or concert hall
    210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Unitarian Church House of worship
    540 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Chapel Road or Melville Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.