Alverson Avenue & Morris Street

Alverson Avenue and Morris Street meet at a three-way junction in Arden Heights-Rossville, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The sculpture “Working in the Same Direction” is 740 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rossville Av/Veterans Rd East, is 1,090 feet away for the S74, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and one place to eat. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1999 and 2007, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Alverson Avenue & Morris Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rossville Av/Veterans Rd East, 1,090 feet away, for the S74.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rossville Av/Veterans Rd East S74
    1,090 feet
    S74

Next buses at this stop

  1. S74 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the West Shore Expressway southbound at Veterans Road West & West Shore Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1550 Arthur Kill Road Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 4350 Arthur Kill Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.3 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2013.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10309
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
123
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Arden Heights-Rossville
Elevation
42 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1999 and 2007.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Fire and Emergency Station.

  1. Working in the Same Direction Sculpture by Béatrice Coron, 2003
    740 feet

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 fire station
  • 1 religious building

Houses of worship

  1. St Joseph Church House of worship
    800 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 168 Fire station
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Fresh Supermarket
    1,230 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Rossville Shopping Center Shopping center
    1,130 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

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