Rice Avenue & Royal Oak Road

Rice Avenue and Royal Oak Road meet at a three-way junction in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The corner is also named Arielle Newman Run by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Clove Lakes Park is 60 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Victory Blvd/Little Clove Rd, is 0.3 miles away for the S61, S62 and S66, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places.

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Rice Avenue & Royal Oak Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Victory Blvd/Little Clove Rd, 0.3 miles away, for the S61, S62 and S66.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Victory Blvd/Little Clove Rd S61, S62, S66 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    S61 S62 S66
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. S61 …
  2. S62 …
  3. S66 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Reon Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1774 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.8 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, the median for a Staten Island corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10314
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49 and 50 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westerleigh-Castleton Corners

This corner is also named Arielle Newman Run, a co-naming enacted on July 17, 2009 (Local Law 46 of 2009).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 90 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 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Arielle Newman Run.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Rice Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Royal Oak Road

  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING 10PM-6AM ALL DAYS

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clove Lakes Park
    60 feet
  2. Stonehenge in Clove Lakes Park Park feature
    780 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 signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

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