Great Kills Road & Cottage Avenue

Great Kills Road and Cottage Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, Hylan Blvd/Great Kills Rd, is 420 feet away for the S78, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1960 and 1990, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Korean War Vets Parkway
2.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Hylan Blvd/Great Kills Rd · S78
Within a walk
2 places
1 day care or pre-K site and 1 listed historic place, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Great Kills Road & Cottage Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hylan Blvd/Great Kills Rd, 420 feet away, for the S78.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hylan Blvd/Great Kills Rd S78
    420 feet
    S78

Next buses at this stop

  1. S78 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway northbound at Drumgoole Road East & Richmond Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3961 Hylan Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 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
10308
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Great Kills-Eltingville
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1960 and 1990.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the silver maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Cottage Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Great Kills Road

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Unikids Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Poillon-Sequine-Britton House Listed historic place
    950 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cottage Avenue or Great Kills Road.

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