Hanover Avenue & Palma Drive
Hanover Avenue and Palma Drive meet at a three-way junction in Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Boimah Cooper Drive 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. Eibs Pond Park is 50 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Targee St/Palma Dr, is 830 feet away for the S74 and S76, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Targee St/Palma Dr, 830 feet away, for the S74 and S76.
- 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Targee St/Palma Dr S74, S76 · Shelter · Countdown sign830 feetS74 S76
Next buses at this stop
- S74 …
- S76 …
Cycling
- 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Narrows Road North & Staten Island Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.
- 535 Vanderbilt Avenue Gas station0.4 miles
- 1232 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and one fast charger1.2 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 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 November 2024.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 10304
- Community board
- Staten Island Community Board 1
- City Council district
- 49
- Police precinct
- 120
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill
- Elevation
- 83 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Boimah Cooper Drive, a co-naming enacted on June 14, 2007 (Local Law 28 of 2007).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1968 and 1972.
Trees
NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Boimah Cooper Drive.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 10 signs on these blocks
- 4 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.
North side of Hanover Avenue
- No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
North side of Palma Drive
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
South side of Palma Drive
- No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
- No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedThree public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 nature area
- 1 playground
- 1 school
Schools and child care
- P.S. 057 Hubert H. Humphrey School380 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Eibs Pond Park Nature area50 feet
- Lopez Playground540 feet
Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.
Nearby corners
The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:
- Park Hill Avenue & Palma Drive 240 feet
- Oder Avenue & Palma Drive 500 feet
- Targee Street & Palma Drive 730 feet
- Oder Avenue & Saunder Street 820 feet
- Steuben Street & Hanover Avenue 820 feet
- Rhine Avenue & Mary Street 940 feet
- Targee Street & Ellington Street 980 feet
- Park Hill Avenue & Sobel Court 1,000 feet
See every intersection along Hanover Avenue or Palma Drive.