Corbin Avenue & Nahant Street

Corbin Avenue and Nahant Street meet at a three-way junction in Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island. The corner is also named Firefighter James Cooney Street 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. King Fisher Park is 1,100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Giffords Ln/Leverett Av, is 0.5 miles away for the S54. Within a five-minute walk are two public places. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1975 and 1985, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Corbin Avenue & Nahant Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Giffords Ln/Leverett Av, 0.5 miles away, for the S54.

  • 1 route within a ten-minute walk
  1. Giffords Ln/Leverett Av S54
    0.5 miles
    S54

Next buses at this stop

  1. S54 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway northbound at Drumgoole Road East & Richmond Parkway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3701 Amboy Road Gas station
    0.8 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10308
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Great Kills-Eltingville
Elevation
82 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter James Cooney Street, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 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 1985.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter James Cooney Street.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2014 and June 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Corbin Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Nahant Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 nature areas

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Siedenburg Park Nature area
    810 feet
  2. King Fisher Park Nature area
    1,100 feet

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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, NYC Records, NYC Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.