Alter Avenue & Plattsburg Street

Alter Avenue and Plattsburg Street meet at a four-way crossing in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named FDNY Rev. Deacon Fred Fausak Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Pierre Billiou House stands 510 feet away. The Dongan Hills station on the SIR is about seven minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings, and five places to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Dongan Hills
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Richmond Rd/Raritan Av · S74, S76, S86, SIM15
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Alter Avenue & Plattsburg Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Dongan Hills, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Dongan Hills SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Rd/Raritan Av, 940 feet away, for the S74, S76, S86 and SIM15.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Rd/Raritan Av S74, S76, S86, SIM15
    940 feet
    S74 S76 S86 SIM15

Next buses at this stop

  1. S74 …
  2. S76 …
  3. S86 …
  4. SIM15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Narrows Road North & Staten Island Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1633 Hylan Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.1 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, the median for a Staten Island corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10304
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

This corner is also named FDNY Rev. Deacon Fred Fausak Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on FDNY Rev. Deacon Fred Fausak Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Alter Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch Colonial, and built between 1660 and 1670.

  1. Pierre Billiou House Designated landmark
    510 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. St Ann School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  2. P.S. 11 Thomas Dongan School
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Billou-Stillwell-Perine House Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Matthews Lutheran Church House of worship
    540 feet
  2. St Anns RC Church House of worship
    810 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 159 Fire station
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Alter Avenue or Plattsburg Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.