Marcy Avenue & West Castor Place

Marcy Avenue and West Castor Place 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. Princes Bay Finance Post Station is 1,210 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Woodrow Rd/Deseree Av, is 1,020 feet away for the S56, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1989 and 2001, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
West Shore Expressway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,020 feet
Woodrow Rd/Deseree Av · S56
Within a walk
2 places
1 post office and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Marcy Avenue & West Castor Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Woodrow Rd/Deseree Av, 1,020 feet away, for the S56.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Woodrow Rd/Deseree Av S56
    1,020 feet
    S56

Next buses at this stop

  1. S56 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the West Shore Expressway northbound at Arthur Kill Road & Veterans Road East, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1550 Arthur Kill Road Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 4350 Arthur Kill Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2017.

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
132 feet above sea level

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 1989 and 2001.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built in 1842.

  1. Woodrow United Methodist Church Designated landmark
    680 feet

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building

Houses of worship

  1. Woodrow Methodist Church Listed historic place
    760 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Princes Bay Finance Post Station Post office
    1,210 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four 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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Marcy Avenue or West Castor Place.

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