Mathews Avenue & Hartford Avenue

Mathews Avenue and Hartford Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Jason DeFazio Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Staten Island Broadway YMCA is 1,250 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Broadway/Clove Rd, is 0.3 miles away for the S53, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Broadway/Clove Rd · S53
Within a walk
2 places
1 day care or pre-K site and 1 recreation center, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mathews Avenue & Hartford Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Clove Rd, 0.3 miles away, for the S53.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Clove Rd S53
    0.3 miles
    S53

Next buses at this stop

  1. S53 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 741 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.5 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 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 February 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10310
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill
Elevation
192 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jason DeFazio Way, a co-naming enacted on September 27, 2002 (Local Law 28 of 2002).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jason DeFazio Way.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. Hugs & Kiddies of Staten Island N.y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Staten Island Broadway YMCA Recreation center
    1,250 feet

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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hartford Avenue or Mathews Avenue.

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