Metropolitan Avenue & Shawnee Street

Metropolitan Avenue and Shawnee Street 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. Silver Lake Park is 360 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Walbrooke Av, is 0.4 miles away for the S48, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 190 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1935 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Metropolitan Avenue & Shawnee Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Walbrooke Av, 0.4 miles away, for the S48.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Walbrooke Av S48
    0.4 miles
    S48

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 525 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.2 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
10301
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
238 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 190 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 1935 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Silver Lake Park
    360 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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