Ramona Avenue & Foster Road

Ramona Avenue and Foster Road meet at a four-way crossing in Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow, Staten Island. The corner is also named John Di Fato Avenue 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. Bloomingdale Park is 990 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Foster Rd/Ramona Av, is 90 feet away for the S56 and SIM25, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Korean War Vets Parkway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Foster Rd/Ramona Av · S56, SIM25
Within a walk
2 places
1 park and 1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ramona Avenue & Foster Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Foster Rd/Ramona Av, 90 feet away, for the S56 and SIM25.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Foster Rd/Ramona Av S56, SIM25
    90 feet
    S56 SIM25

Next buses at this stop

  1. S56 …
  2. SIM25 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway northbound at Drumgoole Road East & Richmond Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5929 Amboy Road Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 4350 Arthur Kill Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.4 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10309
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
123
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow
Elevation
81 feet above sea level

This corner is also named John Di Fato Avenue, a co-naming enacted on June 3, 2003 (Local Law 34 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 1979 and 2006.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John Di Fato Avenue.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bloomingdale Park
    990 feet
  2. Bloomingdale Playground
    1,040 feet

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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Foster Road or Ramona Avenue.

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