Elizabeth Street & Allen Court

Elizabeth Street and Allen Court meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Prall Playground is 30 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Elizabeth St, is 240 feet away for the S48, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them playgrounds, and five places to eat. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Elizabeth Street & Allen Court Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Elizabeth St, 240 feet away, for the S48.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Elizabeth St S48
    240 feet
    S48

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Reon Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 741 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.7 miles
  3. 1445 Richmond Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 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 March 2014.

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)
West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill
Elevation
98 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in February 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Elizabeth Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 027 Anning S. Prall School
    390 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prall Playground
    30 feet
  2. Clove Lakes Park
    780 feet
  3. Saturn Play Equipment Playground
    850 feet
Show all 4
  1. Austin J. McDonald Playground
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Salem Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them 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, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.