Richmond Avenue & Sylvia Street

Richmond Avenue and Sylvia Street meet at a three-way junction in Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island. The corner is also named Freddie Castellano Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. South Shore YMCA is 1,060 feet away. The Eltingville station on the SIR is about a minute on foot. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and 17 places to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Eltingville
140 feet · 1 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Richmond Av/Wilson Av · S59
Within a walk
5 places
1 career or business center, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Richmond Avenue & Sylvia Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Eltingville, 140 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Eltingville SIR · Staten Island Railway
    140 feet
    SIR

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Av/Wilson Av, 200 feet away, for the S59.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Av/Wilson Av S59
    200 feet
    S59

Next buses at this stop

  1. S59 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway northbound at Drumgoole Road East & Richmond Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4472 Amboy Road Gas station
    1,110 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10312
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
122 and 123 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Great Kills-Eltingville
Elevation
58 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Freddie Castellano Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Freddie Castellano Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Richmond Avenue (east side).

West side of Richmond Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sylvia Street

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

South side of Sylvia Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 503611, 523381 and 524288.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office
  • 1 recreation center
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethel Evangelical Free Church House of worship
    1,000 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Staten Island South Shore Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    300 feet
  2. Eltingville Post Office
    880 feet
  3. South Shore YMCA Recreation center
    1,060 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    630 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Amboy Shopping Center Shopping center
    980 feet
  2. Eltingville Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Richmond Avenue or Sylvia Street.

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