Caswell Avenue & Hawthorne Avenue

Caswell Avenue and Hawthorne Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Jewish Foundation School is 1,020 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Watchogue Rd/Cambridge Av, is 1,220 feet away for the SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them schools.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Dr M L King Jr Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,220 feet
Watchogue Rd/Cambridge Av · SIM3, SIM3C, SIM34
Within a walk
3 places
2 schools and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Caswell Avenue & Hawthorne Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Watchogue Rd/Cambridge Av, 1,220 feet away, for the SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Watchogue Rd/Cambridge Av SIM3, SIM3C, SIM34
    1,220 feet
    SIM3 SIM3C SIM34

Next buses at this stop

  1. SIM3 …
  2. SIM3C …
  3. SIM34 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Dr M L King Jr Expressway northbound at Victory Boulevard & Dr M L King Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2509 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10314
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
50
Police precinct
121
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westerleigh-Castleton Corners
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 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 1955 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Jewish Foundation School
    1,020 feet
  2. Rabbi Jacob Joseph for Girls School
    1,020 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Caswell Avenue or Hawthorne Avenue.

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