Kensington Avenue & Kramer Street

Kensington Avenue and Kramer Street meet at a four-way crossing in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named William J. Maguire Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Father Vincent Capodanno Catholic is 810 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hylan Blvd/Kramer St, is 570 feet away for the S53 and S78. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
570 feet
Hylan Blvd/Kramer St · S53, S78
Within a walk
10 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kensington Avenue & Kramer Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hylan Blvd/Kramer St, 570 feet away, for the S53 and S78.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hylan Blvd/Kramer St S53, S78 · Countdown sign
    570 feet
    S53 S78
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. S53 …
  2. S78 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway eastbound at Hylan Boulevard & Narrows Road South at Staten Island Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 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
47 feet above sea level

This corner is also named William J. Maguire Way, a co-naming enacted on October 2, 2012 (Local Law 48 of 2012).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1950 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on William J. Maguire Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

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

East side of Kensington Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Kensington Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. We R Explorers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  2. Father Vincent Capodanno Catholic School
    810 feet
  3. Holy Rosary School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. South Beach Community Garden - South Beach Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    620 feet
  2. Old Town Playground
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Rosary Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 44 Bionia Avenue Older adult center
    920 feet
  2. Old Town Playground Pool Swimming pool
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. South Beach Police station
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    620 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • 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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kensington Avenue or Kramer Street.

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