Arden Avenue & Rensselaer Avenue

Arden Avenue and Rensselaer Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Arden Heights-Rossville, Staten Island. The corner is also named 1st Lt. Alf Larsen Way WWII Hero by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. In 2025, 107 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Drumgoole Tot Lot is 1,080 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Arden Av/Drumgoole Rd East, is 590 feet away for the SIM23, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place.

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Arden Avenue & Rensselaer Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Arden Av/Drumgoole Rd East, 590 feet away, for the SIM23.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Arden Av/Drumgoole Rd East SIM23
    590 feet
    SIM23

Next buses at this stop

  1. SIM23 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway southbound at Drumgoole Road West & Richmond Parkway, 900 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 5105 Amboy Road Gas station
    1 mile

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

In 2025, 107 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,748th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 87 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10312
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
123
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Arden Heights-Rossville
Elevation
110 feet above sea level

This corner is also named 1st Lt. Alf Larsen Way WWII Hero, a co-naming enacted on December 1, 2017 (Local Law 237 of 2017).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 300 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 1965 and 2000.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on 1st Lt. Alf Larsen Way WWII Hero.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Drumgoole Tot Lot Playground
    1,080 feet

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, NYC Records, NYC Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.