Oak Avenue & Elmira Street

Oak Avenue and Elmira 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. St Charles School is 1,210 feet away. The Oakwood Heights station on the SIR is about six minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are two public places. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the river birch.

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Oak Avenue & Elmira Street Nearby corners, linked

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Oakwood Heights, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Oakwood Heights SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.3 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Guyon Av/Elmira St, 860 feet away, for the S57.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Guyon Av/Elmira St S57
    860 feet
    S57

Next buses at this stop

  1. S57 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 105 New Dorp Lane Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2 miles
  3. 920 Father Capodanno Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 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
10306
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Oakwood-Richmondtown
Elevation
12 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 1950 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the river birch.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in November 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Oak Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. St Charles School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clawson Playground
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Tysens Park Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, 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, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.