Post Avenue & Cortlandt Street

Post Avenue and Cortlandt Street meet at a three-way junction in Port Richmond, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Temple Emmanuel is 790 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Post Av/Jewett Av, is 110 feet away for the S44 and S94, and 15 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, six of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

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Post Avenue & Cortlandt Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Post Av/Jewett Av, 110 feet away, for the S44 and S94.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Post Av/Jewett Av S44, S94
    110 feet
    S44 S94

Next buses at this stop

  1. S44 …
  2. S94 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bayonne Bridge at Trantor Place & Bayonne Bridge, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1230 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.3 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 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
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 600 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 1915 and 1945.

Trees

Nineteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese tree lilac.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2020 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Cortlandt Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Post Avenue

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivas Sanz School
    910 feet
  2. P.S. 019 the Curtis School
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Temple Emanu-El Listed historic place
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    200 feet
  2. Mount Calvary Holy Church House of worship
    680 feet
  3. Temple Emmanuel House of worship
    790 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance 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 15 corners 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.