North Burgher Avenue & Myrtle Avenue

North Burgher Avenue and Myrtle Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Austin J. McDonald Playground is 380 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/North Burgher Av, is 370 feet away for the S48, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

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North Burgher Avenue & Myrtle Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/North Burgher Av, 370 feet away, for the S48.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/North Burgher Av S48
    370 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, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 741 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.4 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 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
126 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 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 1947.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Myrtle Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of North Burgher 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

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Austin J. McDonald Playground
    380 feet
  2. Olivet Heavenly Harvest Garden
    780 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 156 Fire station
    1,230 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    920 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 five 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 corners on foot, seven of them 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.