Lily Pond Avenue

Lily Pond Avenue is a relatively short primary artery in the South Beach, Arrochar, Concord, and Shore Acres neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Staten Island.

Route description

Lily Pond Avenue is the middle leg of Staten Island's coastal eastern corridor, possessing the same route as School Road and Father Capodanno Boulevard. Important intersections include Tompkins Avenue, Narrows Road, Major Avenue, and McClean Avenue. Lily Pond Avenue passes underneath the Staten Island Expressway at the foot of the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge. Landmarks include the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge Memorial.

Points of interest

A busy thoroughfare, Lily Pond Avenue has been the scene of at least one fatal motorcycle accident in 2012, and a roadside memorial was set up on the side of that road.
A small, 35-bed nursing home is located on Lily Pond Avenue.

Transportation

Because of the easy access the artery provides to the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge amongst other destinations, MTA Regional Bus Operations runs the following public bus routes along the avenue:

All buses serving School Road run along Lily Pond Avenue's entire route. Fort Wadsworth service runs south of Battery Road, along with the.
The runs from the Staten Island Expressway to McClean Avenue.
The run from the Staten Island Expressway to Father Capodanno Boulevard.

The New York City Marathon directs buses and private vehicles to Lily Pond Avenue, which is just outside the main staging area for the start of the famous foot race. The street is then closed to through traffic.
The City of New York has a designated bicycle lane on Lily Pond Avenue.

In popular culture

Lily Pond Avenue is mentioned in several police procedural novels: in F. P. Lione's The Crossroads, the second volume of the Midtown Blues series, Lione's Skells: A Novel, the third volume of the Midtown Blues series, and Jamise L. Dames's Pushing Up Daisies: A Novel,