Clove Road & Purcell Street

Clove Road and Purcell Street meet at a three-way junction in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The corner is also named Lt. Joseph Gullickson Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Salem Church is 110 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Clove Rd/Martling Av, is 830 feet away for the SIM35, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them playgrounds.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
Clove Rd/Martling Av · SIM35
Within a walk
6 places
2 playgrounds, 1 park and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Clove Road & Purcell Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clove Rd/Martling Av, 830 feet away, for the SIM35.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. SIM35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Clove Road.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Reon Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 741 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 November 2021.

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)
Westerleigh-Castleton Corners
Elevation
117 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Lt. Joseph Gullickson Way, a co-naming enacted on September 27, 2002 (Local Law 28 of 2002).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 200 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 1920 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lt. Joseph Gullickson Way.

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.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school
  • 1 zoo or aquarium

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 027 Anning S. Prall School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clove Lakes Park
    50 feet
  2. Saturn Play Equipment Playground
    700 feet
  3. Staten Island Zoo Zoo or aquarium
    820 feet
Show all 4
  1. Prall Playground
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Salem Church House of worship
    110 feet

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Clove Road or Purcell Street.

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