Richmond Road & Locust Avenue

Richmond Road and Locust Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Our Lady Queen of Peace Church is 1,200 feet away. The New Dorp station on the SIR is about seven minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
New Dorp
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Richmond Rd/Altamont St · S74, S76, S86
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Richmond Road & Locust Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is New Dorp, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. New Dorp SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Creeping on Where Time Has Been” (2023) by Keri Sheheen at the New Dorp station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Rd/Altamont St, 70 feet away, for the S74, S76 and S86.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Rd/Altamont St S74, S76, S86
    70 feet
    S74 S76 S86

Next buses at this stop

  1. S74 …
  2. S76 …
  3. S86 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway eastbound at Slosson Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2420 Richmond Road Gas station
    880 feet
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.4 miles
  3. 920 Father Capodanno Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10306
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Heritage' river birch and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Richmond Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 15 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Richmond Road

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-9AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady Queen of Peace School
    780 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Queen of Peace Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gourmet Island Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Altamont Street, Locust Avenue or Richmond Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.