Kissel Avenue & Wales Place

Kissel Avenue and Wales Place meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. New York Chinese Scholar's Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center is 480 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Henderson Av/Westbury Av, is 0.3 miles away for the S44, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them park features.

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Kissel Avenue & Wales Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Henderson Av/Westbury Av, 0.3 miles away, for the S44.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Henderson Av/Westbury Av S44
    0.3 miles
    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, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1125 Richmond Terrace Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 54 Central Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    2.1 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 March 2013.

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
7 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 180 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1961.

Trees

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

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 2 parks

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park
    30 feet
  2. New York Chinese Scholar's Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    480 feet
  3. Healing Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    810 feet
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  1. Rose Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    1,040 feet
  2. Walker Park
    1,060 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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

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