Otis Avenue & Kruser Street

Otis Avenue and Kruser Street meet at a four-way crossing in New Dorp-Midland Beach, Staten Island. The corner is also named Frank J. Spinelli, Jr. Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The New Dorp station on the SIR is about six minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk is one place to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1970, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest railway station
New Dorp
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
Richmond Rd/Locust Av · S74, S76
Within a walk
About 400 homes
within 820 feet of this corner

Map

Layers
Otis Avenue & Kruser Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

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

  1. New Dorp SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.3 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Grant City SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.3 miles
    SIR

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Creeping on Where Time Has Been” (2023) by Keri Sheheen at the New Dorp station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Rd/Locust Av, 910 feet away, for the S74 and S76.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Rd/Locust Av S74, S76
    910 feet
    S74 S76

Next buses at this stop

  1. S74 …
  2. S76 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway eastbound at Slosson Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2420 Richmond Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.2 miles
  3. 920 Father Capodanno Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 2
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
New Dorp-Midland Beach
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Frank J. Spinelli, Jr. Way, a co-naming enacted on January 7, 2003 (Local Law 6 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1930 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Frank J. Spinelli, Jr. Way.

Within a walk

How places are listed

Supermarkets

  1. Gourmet Island Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • 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
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kruser Street or Otis Avenue.

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