Ridge Avenue & Chapin Avenue

Ridge Avenue and Chapin Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, Staten Island. The corner is also named Paul V. Barbaro Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Reed's Basket Willow Swamp Park is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Richmond Rd/Norden St, is 0.4 miles away for the S74 and S76, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Richmond Rd/Norden St · S74, S76
Within a walk
1 place
1 nature area, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ridge Avenue & Chapin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Rd/Norden St, 0.4 miles away, for the S74 and S76.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Rd/Norden St S74, S76
    0.4 miles
    S74 S76

Next buses at this stop

  1. S74 …
  2. S76 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Narrows Road North & Staten Island Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1098 Richmond Road Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and one fast charger
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10304
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Elevation
140 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Paul V. Barbaro Way, a co-naming enacted on January 7, 2003 (Local Law 6 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1955 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Paul V. Barbaro Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Chapin Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Ridge Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Reed's Basket Willow Swamp Park Nature area
    620 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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Chapin Avenue or Ridge Avenue.

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