Hylan Boulevard & Otis Avenue

Hylan Boulevard and Otis Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in New Dorp-Midland Beach, Staten Island. The corner is also named Police Officer Rocco W. Laurie Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Miller Field is 680 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hylan Blvd/Otis Av, is 110 feet away for the S78. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
2.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Hylan Blvd/Otis Av · S78
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 field and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hylan Boulevard & Otis Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hylan Blvd/Otis Av, 110 feet away, for the S78.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hylan Blvd/Otis Av S78 · Shelter
    110 feet
    S78
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. S78 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 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, 2.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2150 Hylan Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1976 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.8 miles
  3. 920 Father Capodanno Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2026

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
15 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Police Officer Rocco W. Laurie Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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 1935 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Police Officer Rocco W. Laurie Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2014 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hylan Boulevard

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hylan Boulevard

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Otis Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Otis Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 field
  • 1 police station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Hylan Day Care 2 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    100 feet
  2. Hylan Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    220 feet
  3. The Stephanie A. Vierno School
    690 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Miller Field
    680 feet

Fire and police

  1. 122nd Precinct Police station
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. New HL Supermarket Supermarket
    40 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. The Boulevard Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and three food stores.

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

See every intersection along Hylan Boulevard or Otis Avenue.

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