Henderson Avenue & Kissel Avenue

Henderson Avenue and Kissel Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Rep. John Murphy Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Snug Harbor Cultural Center is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Henderson Av/Westbury Av, is 170 feet away for the S44, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
2.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Henderson Av/Westbury Av · S44
Within a walk
4 places
1 nature area, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Henderson Avenue & Kissel Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Henderson Av/Westbury Av, 170 feet away, for the S44.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Henderson Av/Westbury Av S44
    170 feet
    S44

Next buses at this stop

  1. S44 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1125 Richmond Terrace Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2 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
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
41 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rep. John Murphy Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 190 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 1930 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rep. John Murphy Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Henderson Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Kissel Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built in 1859.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park
    40 feet
  2. Healing Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    900 feet
  3. Allison Pond Park Nature area
    1,070 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Henderson Avenue or Kissel Avenue.

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