Westwood Avenue & Melba Street

Westwood Avenue and Melba Street meet at a four-way crossing in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, Manor Rd/Westwood Av, is 1,110 feet away for the S54, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1975, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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Westwood Avenue & Melba Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Manor Rd/Westwood Av, 1,110 feet away, for the S54.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manor Rd/Westwood Av S54
    1,110 feet
    S54

Next buses at this stop

  1. S54 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway eastbound at South Gannon Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 995 Manor Road Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1441 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    2.4 miles

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 December 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10314
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
49 and 50 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
121
Elevation
258 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 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 1950 and 1975.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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 September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Westwood Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Manor Road Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

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
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

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