Alverson Avenue & West Castor Place

Alverson Avenue and West Castor Place 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. Princes Bay Finance Post Station is 340 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Woodrow Rd/Alverson Av, is 630 feet away for the S56, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and three places to eat. About 130 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1985 and 1990, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
West Shore Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Woodrow Rd/Alverson Av · S56
Within a walk
2 places
1 day care or pre-K site and 1 post office, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Alverson Avenue & West Castor Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Woodrow Rd/Alverson Av, 630 feet away, for the S56.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Woodrow Rd/Alverson Av S56
    630 feet
    S56

Next buses at this stop

  1. S56 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the West Shore Expressway northbound at Arthur Kill Road & Veterans Road East, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 970 Bloomingdale Road Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 4350 Arthur Kill Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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
112 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 130 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 1985 and 1990.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. The Richmond Pre-K Center at 1275 Woodrow Road Pre-K center
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Princes Bay Finance Post Station Post office
    340 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and four food stores.

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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Alverson Avenue or West Castor Place.

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