Fayette Avenue & Woodlawn Avenue

Fayette Avenue and Woodlawn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named Edgar Meekins Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. The Grasmere station on the SIR is about seven minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are eight places to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1990, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Fayette Avenue & Woodlawn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Grasmere, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Grasmere SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Old Town SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hylan Blvd/Clove Rd, 850 feet away, for the S53, S78, S79 SBS, SIM1 and four more.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hylan Blvd/Clove Rd S53, S78, S79 SBS, SIM1 +4 · Countdown sign
    850 feet
    S53 S78 S79 SBS SIM1 SIM1C SIM7 SIM10 SIM11
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. S53 …
  2. S78 …
  3. S79 SBS …
  4. SIM1 …
  5. SIM1C …
  6. SIM7 …
  7. SIM10 …
  8. SIM11 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Narrows Road North & Staten Island Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1416 Hylan Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and one fast charger
    1,160 feet

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10305
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
50
Police precinct
122
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills
Elevation
77 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Edgar Meekins Way, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1990.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and September 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Woodlawn Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM ALL DAYS

West side of Woodlawn Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    500 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    610 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 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 Records, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA, NYC Health and NYC Parks, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.