Clawson Street & Sterling Avenue

Clawson Street and Sterling Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in New Dorp-Midland Beach, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. New Dorp Baptist Church is 1,220 feet away. The New Dorp station on the SIR is about eight minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them schools, and 34 places to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1939 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
New Dorp
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Lindbergh Av/Clawson St · S57, S79 SBS
Within a walk
5 places
2 schools, 1 library and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Clawson Street & Sterling Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is New Dorp, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. New Dorp SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Creeping on Where Time Has Been” (2023) by Keri Sheheen at the New Dorp station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lindbergh Av/Clawson St, 600 feet away, for the S57 and S79 SBS.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lindbergh Av/Clawson St S57, S79 SBS
    600 feet
    S57 S79 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. S57 …
  2. S79 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

  1. 105 New Dorp Lane Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.3 miles
  3. 920 Father Capodanno Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10306
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
New Dorp-Midland Beach
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

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 1939 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Clawson Street

  • Time-limited parking 1 sign 2 HOUR PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Clawson Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Staten Island Technical High School
    940 feet
  2. New Dorp Christian Academy School
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New Dorp Library
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Dorp Baptist Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. New Dorp Post Office
    1,080 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    660 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    790 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. The Boulevard Shopping center
    740 feet
  2. Tysens Park Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and 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 Clawson Street or Sterling Avenue.

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