Park Avenue & Bennett Street

Park Avenue and Bennett Street meet at a four-way crossing in Port Richmond, Staten Island. The corner is also named Rev. Dr. William A. Epps, Jr. by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Veterans Park is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Port Richmond Av/Bennett St, is 410 feet away for the S53, S57, S59 and S66. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bayonne Bridge
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Port Richmond Av/Bennett St · S53, S57, S59, S66
Within a walk
17 places
12 religious buildings, 1 career or business center and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & Bennett Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Port Richmond Av/Bennett St, 410 feet away, for the S53, S57, S59 and S66.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Port Richmond Av/Bennett St S53, S57, S59, S66
    410 feet
    S53 S57 S59 S66

Next buses at this stop

  1. S53 …
  2. S57 …
  3. S59 …
  4. S66 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bayonne Bridge at Trantor Place & Bayonne Bridge, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 387 Port Richmond Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10302
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
121
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Port Richmond
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rev. Dr. William A. Epps, Jr., a co-naming enacted on February 18, 2003 (Local Law 14 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rev. Dr. William A. Epps, Jr..

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2014 and October 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bennett Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

East side of Park Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival and Romanesque Revival. They were built between 1844 and 1905.

  1. Northfield Township District School 6 Designated landmark
    430 feet
  2. Reformed Church on Staten Island, Sunday School Bldg, & Cemetery Designated landmark
    700 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Veterans Park.

  1. Eugene G. Putnam Fountain by Virgil Fuller, 1915
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 020 Port Richmond School
    510 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Veterans Park
    40 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Port Richmond Library Landmark
    350 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Phillips Baptist Church House of worship
    190 feet
  2. St Marys Orthodox Church House of worship
    200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Staten Island Workforce1 Industrial & Transportation Career Center Career or business center
    1,120 feet
  2. Older adult center at 120 Anderson Avenue Older adult center
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bennett Street or Park Avenue.

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