Lamoka Avenue & Escanaba Avenue

Lamoka Avenue and Escanaba Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island. The corner is also named Jennifer Lynn Tzemis Avenue by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Great Kills station on the SIR is about nine minutes on foot. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1970 and 1975, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Great Kills
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
0.5 miles
Richmond Av/Bartlett Av · S59
Within a walk
About 500 homes
within 820 feet of this corner

Map

Layers
Lamoka Avenue & Escanaba Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Great Kills, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Av/Bartlett Av, 0.5 miles away, for the S59.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Av/Bartlett Av S59
    0.5 miles
    S59

Next buses at this stop

  1. S59 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway northbound at Drumgoole Road East & Richmond Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4275 Amboy Road Gas station
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 October 2017.

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
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jennifer Lynn Tzemis Avenue, a co-naming enacted on October 20, 2003 (Local Law 62 of 2003).

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 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 1970 and 1975.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jennifer Lynn Tzemis Avenue.

Within a walk

How places are listed

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Amboy Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles
  2. Eltingville Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

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
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Escanaba Avenue or Lamoka Avenue.

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