Lamoka Avenue & Getz Avenue

Lamoka Avenue and Getz Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island. The corner is also named Frank Appice Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Eltingville station on the SIR is about seven minutes on foot. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1970 and 1990, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Lamoka Avenue & Getz Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Eltingville, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Eltingville SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.3 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, 1,020 feet away, for the S59.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Av/Bartlett Av S59
    1,020 feet
    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, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4275 Amboy Road Gas station
    0.6 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 January 2015.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10312
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 Frank Appice Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2019 (Local Law 24 of 2019).

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 1990.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the red maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Frank Appice Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in February 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Getz Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Lamoka Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Shopping centers

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

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

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