Ladd Avenue & Challenger Drive

Ladd Avenue and Challenger Drive meet at a three-way junction in Arden Heights-Rossville, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Freshkills Park is 190 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Arthur Kill Rd/Ladd Av, is 160 feet away for the S74, and 19 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them parks, and four places to eat. About 170 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1975 and 1989, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Korean War Vets Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Arthur Kill Rd/Ladd Av · S74
Within a walk
3 places
2 parks and 1 bus terminal, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ladd Avenue & Challenger Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Arthur Kill Rd/Ladd Av, 160 feet away, for the S74.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Arthur Kill Rd/Ladd Av S74
    160 feet
    S74

Next buses at this stop

  1. S74 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Korean War Vets Parkway southbound at Drumgoole Road West & Richmond Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3143 Richmond Avenue Gas station
    1,130 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10312
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
123
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Arden Heights-Rossville
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 170 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 1975 and 1989.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 bus terminal

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freshkills Park
    190 feet
  2. Brookfield Park
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ALDI Supermarket
    1,110 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Greenridge Plaza Shopping center
    1,270 feet

Other places

  1. Eltingville Transit Center Bus terminal
    640 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and two 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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Ladd Avenue.

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