Richmond Road (Staten Island)

Richmond Road is a major north-south artery along the

Todt Hill, New Dorp, Egbertville, Lighthouse Hill, and Richmondtown

Route description

Parts of Richmond Road along with all of

Vanderbilt Avenue and all of Amboy Road form Staten Island's colonial-era eastern corridor that predates the newer, straighter, and wider Hylan Boulevard. The three roads that make up the corridor share a common numbering system, i.e. Richmond Road's numbers start where Vanderbilt Avenue's leave off and Amboy Road's numbers start where Amboy Road forks away from Richmond Road. This numbering system includes the numerically highest of street addresses in New York City.^[2]

Other roads that fork off of the Richmond Road corridor are St. Paul's Avenue, Van Duzer Street, Targee Street, Rockland Avenue, Bloomingdale Road, Pleasant Plains Avenue, and Richmond Valley Road.

Transportation

Richmond Road is served by the

S57

local buses also cover a portion of the route.

History

Richmond Road dates back to the early 1700s, laid out as part of the "Public Common General Road", and was likely a Native American footpath prior to that.[3]^[4]

Major intersections

The entire route is in the

borough of Staten Island

.

Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Richmondtown	0.00	0.00	Arthur Kill Road south / Richmond Hill Road west
New Dorp	1.45	2.33	Amboy Road south
Todt Hill	3.86	6.21	Targee Street	Southern terminus of one-way segment
Verrazano Bridge	Exit 13A on I-278; access via Narrows Road
Park Hill	4.93	7.93	Van Duzer Street / Vanderbilt Avenue
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

^ ^a ^b "Richmond County Inventory Listing" (CSV). New York State Department of Transportation. August 7, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
^ "End of the Line". Forgotten New York. Archived from the original on October 17, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
^ (18 October 2008). "Our Staten Island Streets:" Richmond Road, Staten Island Advance (reprint of article which originally appeared in same publication in 1997)
^ Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York, Volume 2, p. 448 (1900)

[inventory-1] "Richmond County Inventory Listing" (CSV). New York State Department of Transportation. August 7, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2020.

[2] "End of the Line". Forgotten New York. Archived from the original on October 17, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2015.

[hist1-3] (18 October 2008). "Our Staten Island Streets:" Richmond Road, Staten Island Advance (reprint of article which originally appeared in same publication in 1997)

[footpath-4] Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York, Volume 2, p. 448 (1900)

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