Benedict Avenue & Brookside Avenue

Benedict Avenue and Brookside Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Ascension Church is 200 feet away, and Salem Church is 1,210 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Martling Av/Slosson Av, is 940 feet away for the SIM35, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings. About 160 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Martling Av/Slosson Av · SIM35
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Benedict Avenue & Brookside Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Martling Av/Slosson Av, 940 feet away, for the SIM35.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Martling Av/Slosson Av SIM35
    940 feet
    SIM35

Next buses at this stop

  1. SIM35 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Reon Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1230 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.7 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
10314
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
50
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westerleigh-Castleton Corners
Elevation
128 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 160 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 1950 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 79 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Richmond Medical Center - Kingsley School
    380 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clove Lakes Park
    70 feet
  2. Brooks Lake in Clove Lakes Park Park feature
    680 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ascension Church House of worship
    200 feet
  2. Salem Church House of worship
    1,210 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 nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Benedict Avenue or Brookside Avenue.

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