Harvard Avenue & Park Place

Harvard Avenue and Park Place meet at a four-way crossing in St. George-New Brighton, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Cottages Hill New Brighton Park is 640 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Jersey St/Carlyle St, is 1,030 feet away for the S42 and S52, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1905 and 1940, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Harvard Avenue & Park Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jersey St/Carlyle St, 1,030 feet away, for the S42 and S52.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jersey St/Carlyle St S42, S52
    1,030 feet
    S42 S52

Next buses at this stop

  1. S42 …
  2. S52 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 2.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 700 Richmond Terrace Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.1 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 June 2017.

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
189 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Park Place

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and five buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were built between 1853 and 1864.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cottages Hill New Brighton Park
    640 feet
  2. Skyline Community Garden
    830 feet
  3. Jones Woods Park Nature area
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. Skyline Playground
    990 feet
  2. Davis Playground
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hamilton Park Community Houses Listed historic place
    230 feet
  2. Residence at One Pendleton Place Listed historic place
    650 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Stanislaus Kostka Church House of worship
    1,220 feet
  2. Christ Church New Brighton Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

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 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, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.