Melville Road & Shinbone Alley

Melville Road and Shinbone Alley meet at a five-way junction in Snug Harbor, Staten Island. The corner stands inside Snug Harbor Cultural Center. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sailors' Snug Harbor, Building E, one of eight Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 140 feet away, and Noble Maritime Collection is 180 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Richmond Terr/Sailors Snug Harbor Gate, is 680 feet away for the S40. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them park features, and two places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Richmond Terr/Sailors Snug Harbor Gate · S40
Within a walk
13 places
5 park features, 2 museums and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Melville Road & Shinbone Alley Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Terr/Sailors Snug Harbor Gate, 680 feet away, for the S40.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Terr/Sailors Snug Harbor Gate S40
    680 feet
    S40

Next buses at this stop

  1. S40 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

  1. 700 Richmond Terrace Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 54 Central Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.8 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
10301
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Snug Harbor
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane

Homes

About 80 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 1901 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 151 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the apple.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are eight Individual Landmarks, and nine buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Greek Revival. They were built between 1800 and 1880.

  1. Sailors' Snug Harbor, Building E Designated landmark
    140 feet
  2. Sailors' Snug Harbor, Building D Designated landmark
    210 feet
  3. Administration Building (Building "C") Designated landmark
    300 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest at Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

  1. Neptune Fountain Fountain
    160 feet
  2. Icon II Sculpture by Seena Donneson, 1980
    610 feet
  3. Robert Richard Randall Statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1884
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 park features
  • 2 museums
  • 2 theaters or concert halls
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

This corner stands inside Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

Schools and child care

  1. Children's Harbor Montessori School Pre-K
    180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. Eleanor Proske Visitors Center in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    310 feet
  3. Lillian Beyer Schwartz Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    340 feet
Show all 6
  1. Weissglass Gazebo in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    850 feet
  2. Rose Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    960 feet
  3. Herb Garden in Snug Harbor Cultural Center Park feature
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Noble Maritime Collection Museum
    180 feet
  2. Staten Island Museum
    500 feet
  3. Neville House Listed historic place
    950 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Snug Harbor Music Hall Theater or concert hall
    150 feet
  2. Veterans Memorial Hall Theater or concert hall · landmark
    300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Unitarian Church House of worship
    820 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Melville Road or Snug Harbor Cultural Center Driveway.

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