Giffords Lane is a primary yet mostly residential artery that transverses the neighborhood of Great Kills

Great Kills, Staten Island

Great Kills is a neighborhood within New York City's borough of Staten Island. It is located on the island's South Shore, and according to many local geographers, it is the South Shore's northernmost community...

 of the New York City

New York City

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 borough

Borough

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 of Staten Island

Staten Island

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. It is approximately 0.9 miles (1.4 km) long.

Giffords Lane begins at Amboy Road

Amboy Road

Amboy Road is a major north-south artery along the South-East Shore of the New York City borough of Staten Island. It is approximately long.Along with parts of Richmond Road and all of Vanderbilt Avenue, Amboy Road forms the last leg of Staten Island's colonial-era eastern corridor that predates...

 where it forms part of a small commercial town square

Town square

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. It proceeds for a couple of short blocks before passing over the Staten Island Railway

Staten Island Railway

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's Great Kills station

Great Kills (Staten Island Railway station)

Great Kills is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Great Kills, Staten Island, New York. It is located on an open cut southwest of Giffords Lane and Amboy Road on the main line. It has two side platforms and turquoise blue canopies and walls. This station is...

. One block passed the station stands the Great Kills branch of the New York Public Library

New York Public Library

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. Past the library Giffords Lane becomes very residential with sparse small businesses along the route. Giffords Lane eventually ends at Arthur Kill Road

Arthur Kill Road

Arthur Kill Road is a major northeast-southwest artery along the South-West Shore of the New York City borough of Staten Island. It is approximately long, and runs through the neighborhoods of Richmondtown, Great Kills,...

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