It begins at the Outerbridge Crossing toll gantry and runs from southwest to northeast to a merge with Drumgoole Road West in the island's Arden Heights section.

The Korean War Veterans Parkway begins concurrent with NY 440 at the Outerbridge Crossing toll gantry east of the New Jersey state line on Staten Island.

Not far to the east, the parkway runs along the southern edge of Bloomingdale Park and connects to Maguire Avenue by way of ramps leading to and from Drumgoole Road.

The parkway continues slightly northeastward along the Prince's Bay–Woodrow line, serving Huguenot Avenue with southbound exit and northbound entrance ramps.

[citation needed] In the late 1960s, intense community opposition erupted over the portion east of Richmond Avenue—much of it from environmentalists[4]—because the parkway's planned route would have bisected the Staten Island Greenbelt and would have required the condemnation and razing of miles of private property.

[5] The 4.8-mile (7.7 km) section of the parkway between Richmond Avenue and the proposed Staten Island Expressway interchange ended up never being built, and the route was subsequently demapped.

[1] Robert Moses had an interchange built at the junction with the Staten Island Expressway (I-278) in Todt Hill, with the intention of using it for the terminus of the Richmond Parkway.