Mills Avenue & Cedar Avenue

Mills Avenue and Cedar Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Engine 161/Ladder 81 firehouse is 840 feet away. The nearest bus stop, McClean Av/Mills Av, is 570 feet away for the S53, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and three places to eat. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Mills Avenue & Cedar Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is McClean Av/Mills Av, 570 feet away, for the S53.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McClean Av/Mills Av S53 · Countdown sign
    570 feet
    S53
    Countdown sign

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 Narrows Road North & Staten Island Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1400 Bay Street Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and one fast charger
    1 mile

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
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
51 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2014 and November 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cedar Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cedar Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Mills Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Mills Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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 fire station

Schools and child care

  1. New U" Tots 3-K" Pre-K
    610 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 161/Ladder 81 Fire station
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

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