Vanderbilt Avenue & Metcalfe Street

Vanderbilt Avenue and Metcalfe Street meet at a three-way junction in Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Roots of Peace Community Garden is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Vanderbilt Av/Roff St, is 340 feet away for the S76, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

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Vanderbilt Avenue & Metcalfe Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vanderbilt Av/Roff St, 340 feet away, for the S76.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vanderbilt Av/Roff St S76
    340 feet
    S76

Next buses at this stop

  1. S76 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Vanderbilt Avenue.

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Narrows Road North & Staten Island Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 425 Vanderbilt Avenue Gas station
    at this corner
  2. 1 Edgewater Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash 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
10304
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1965 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 101 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the pin oak.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Bumblebees R-Us Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. The Waverly Academy of Empowered Learners School
    1,190 feet
  3. Young Minds in Motion USA Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sobel Court Park
    120 feet
  2. Sobel Court Park Playground
    510 feet
  3. Roots of Peace Community Garden
    830 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

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