Clarke Avenue & Cotter Avenue

Clarke Avenue and Cotter Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Richmondtown Library is 410 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Clarke Av/Wilder Av, is 0.3 miles away for the SIM15, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1975 and 1986, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Clarke Avenue & Cotter Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clarke Av/Wilder Av, 0.3 miles away, for the SIM15.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clarke Av/Wilder Av SIM15
    0.3 miles
    SIM15

Next buses at this stop

  1. SIM15 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 3310 Richmond Road Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2.9 miles

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 April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10306
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Great Kills-Eltingville
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 1975 and 1986.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Clarke Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 library

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Richmondtown Library
    410 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    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 and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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