Clove Road & Martling Avenue

Clove Road and Martling Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Vincent Gattullo Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Staten Island Zoo is 130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Clove Rd/Martling Av, is 60 feet away for the SIM35, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places.

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Clove Road & Martling Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clove Rd/Martling Av, 60 feet away, for the SIM35.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clove Rd/Martling Av SIM35
    60 feet
    SIM35

Next buses at this stop

  1. SIM35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Clove Road.

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Reon Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 741 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and one fast charger
    2.9 miles

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

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2008
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 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
144 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Vincent Gattullo Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 120 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 1925 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 102 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Vincent Gattullo Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

West side of Clove Road

  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Martling Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Martling Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1920 and 1921.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Staten Island Zoo.

  1. Python Sculpture by Steve Foust, 2007
    410 feet
  2. South American Tropical Forest and African Savannah Mosaic by Amanda Jaffe, 1996
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 recreation center
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 zoo or aquarium

Schools and child care

  1. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clove Lakes Park
    80 feet
  2. Staten Island Zoo Zoo or aquarium
    130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Salem Church House of worship
    770 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Staten Island Broadway YMCA Recreation center
    1,130 feet

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

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