Richmond Road (Staten Island)

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. 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 following bus routes: • The serves the road in its entirety, with the north of New Dorp Lane and the on two portions: between Narrows and Amboy Roads and south of Wilder Avenue. Where Richmond Road is one way southbound, northbound buses use the parallel Targee Street. • The runs south of Rockland Avenue, and the runs north of Rockland until Amboy Road, via the New Dorp station from Rose Avenue to New Dorp Lane. • The St. George Ferry-bound runs to Midland Avenue from Lincoln Avenue, where the route originates. The just terminates at Lincoln in Grant City due to running only southbound. ==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. ==Major intersections==