Harvard Avenue & East Buchanan Street

Harvard Avenue and East Buchanan Street meet at a three-way junction in St. George-New Brighton, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Christ Church Rectory, one of three Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 460 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Richmond Terr/Franklin Av, is 1,130 feet away for the S40 and S44, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them listed historic places.

Map

Layers
Harvard Avenue & East Buchanan Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Terr/Franklin Av, 1,130 feet away, for the S40 and S44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Terr/Franklin Av S40, S44 · Shelter
    1,130 feet
    S40 S44
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. S40 …
  2. S44 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 2.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 700 Richmond Terrace Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.3 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 January 2013.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10301
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
St. George-New Brighton
Elevation
131 feet above sea level

The streets

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

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 1910 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in October 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of East Buchanan Street

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate and neo-Gothic. They were built between 1853 and 1904.

  1. Christ Church Rectory Designated landmark
    460 feet

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 religious buildings

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hamilton Park Community Houses Listed historic place
    620 feet
  2. Residence at One Pendleton Place Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Church New Brighton Landmark · listed historic place
    480 feet
  2. St Stanislaus Kostka Church House of worship
    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 and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

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