North Burgher Avenue & Morrison Avenue

North Burgher Avenue and Morrison Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Shawn E. Bowman, Jr. Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Austin J. McDonald Playground is 720 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/North Burgher Av, is 270 feet away for the S48, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and 13 places to eat.

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North Burgher Avenue & Morrison Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/North Burgher Av, 270 feet away, for the S48.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/North Burgher Av S48
    270 feet
    S48

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

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. 741 Forest Avenue Gas station
    430 feet
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.4 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

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
148 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Shawn E. Bowman, Jr. Way, a co-naming enacted on September 27, 2002 (Local Law 28 of 2002).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1942.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Shawn E. Bowman, Jr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Morrison Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of North Burgher Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Austin J. McDonald Playground
    720 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    860 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.