Castleton Avenue & Elm Street

Castleton Avenue and Elm Street meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Iglesia Jovenes Cristianos Church is 480 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Castleton Av/Bement Av, is 220 feet away for the S46, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

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Castleton Avenue & Elm Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Castleton Av/Bement Av, 220 feet away, for the S46.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Castleton Av/Bement Av S46
    220 feet
    S46

Next buses at this stop

  1. S46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bayonne Bridge at Trantor Place & Bayonne Bridge, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 741 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.3 miles

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 March 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10310
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill
Elevation
78 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1910 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2021 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Castleton Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 library
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Sacred Heart School
    880 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. West New Brighton Library
    500 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    180 feet
  2. Iglesia Jovenes Cristianos Church House of worship
    480 feet
  3. Sacred Heart Church House of worship
    480 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Richmond Civil Court Courthouse
    390 feet
  2. West New Brighton Post Office
    880 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and 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, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.