North Railroad Avenue & Buffalo Street

North Railroad Avenue and Buffalo Street meet at a three-way junction in Oakwood-Richmondtown, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Congregation Bnai Israel is 280 feet away. The Bay Terrace station on the SIR is about five minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and five places to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1960 and 1970, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Bay Terrace
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · SIR
Within a walk
2 places
1 day care or pre-K site and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
North Railroad Avenue & Buffalo Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Bay Terrace, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Terrace SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.3 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

By car

  1. 3701 Amboy Road Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 July 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10306
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Oakwood-Richmondtown
Elevation
60 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1960 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

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 between November 2016 and November 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Buffalo Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of North Railroad Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Cbi Academy Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Bnai Israel House of worship
    280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A bus stop within a ten-minute walk
  • 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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Buffalo Street or North Railroad Avenue.

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