Sycamore Street & Hillcrest Avenue

Sycamore Street and Hillcrest Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 8 Shirlee Solomon is 1,070 feet away. The Great Kills station on the SIR is about ten minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1935 and 1969, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Great Kills
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
1,160 feet
Nelson Av/Monticello Terr · S54, SIM5, SIM6
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sycamore Street & Hillcrest Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Great Kills, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Great Kills SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.5 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nelson Av/Monticello Terr, 1,160 feet away, for the S54, SIM5 and SIM6.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nelson Av/Monticello Terr S54, SIM5, SIM6
    1,160 feet
    S54 SIM5 SIM6

Next buses at this stop

  1. S54 …
  2. SIM5 …
  3. SIM6 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway northbound at Drumgoole Road East & Richmond Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3961 Hylan Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 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 September 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10308
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Great Kills-Eltingville
Elevation
85 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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 1935 and 1969.

Trees

Twenty trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

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

North side of Sycamore Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. St Clare School
    640 feet
  2. P.S. 8 Shirlee Solomon School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Great Kills Veterans Playground
    510 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hillcrest Avenue or Sycamore Street.

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