Hillcrest Avenue & Park Terrace

Hillcrest Avenue and Park Terrace 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. Great Kills Veterans Playground is 20 feet away. The Great Kills station on the SIR is about eight minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1935 and 1970, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

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Hillcrest Avenue & Park Terrace Nearby corners, linked

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Great Kills, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Great Kills SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nelson Av/Amboy Rd, 0.3 miles away, for the S54, SIM5 and SIM6.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nelson Av/Amboy Rd S54, SIM5, SIM6
    0.3 miles
    S54 SIM5 SIM6

Next buses at this stop

  1. S54 …
  2. SIM5 …
  3. SIM6 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway northbound at Drumgoole Road East & Richmond Parkway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3961 Hylan Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

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 1935 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 8 Shirlee Solomon School
    470 feet
  2. St Clare School
    790 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Great Kills Veterans Playground
    20 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,200 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Eltingville Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

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