Edgewater Street & Clifton Avenue

Edgewater Street and Clifton Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Buono Beach by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Alice Austen Park is 40 feet away. The Clifton station on the SIR is about ten minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them listed historic places, and six places to eat. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
2 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Clifton
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
1,310 feet
Bay St/Virginia Av · S51
Within a walk
6 places
2 listed historic places, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Edgewater Street & Clifton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

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

  1. Clifton 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 Bay St/Virginia Av, 1,310 feet away, for the S51.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay St/Virginia Av S51 · Countdown sign
    1,310 feet
    S51
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. S51 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway eastbound at Hylan Boulevard & Narrows Road South at Staten Island Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 951 Bay Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1 Edgewater Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, the median for a Staten Island corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10305
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Buono Beach, a co-naming enacted on February 29, 1988 (Local Law 10 of 1988).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Buono Beach.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Edgewater Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch Colonial and Victorian, one each, and built between 1700 and 1845.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Alice Austen Park.

  1. Matthew J. Buono Memorial Fountain Fountain, 2002
    100 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Alice Austen Park
    40 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Elizabeth Alice Austen House Listed historic place
    490 feet
  2. Alice Austen House Museum Landmark
    500 feet
  3. McFarlane-Bredt House Listed historic place
    650 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marys RC Church House of worship
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,110 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Clifton Avenue or Edgewater Street.

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