Potter Avenue & Fairview Avenue

Potter Avenue and Fairview Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The corner is also named James Lane III Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Clove Lakes Park is 890 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Manor Rd/Rice Av, is 0.3 miles away for the S54, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Manor Rd/Rice Av · S54
Within a walk
1 place
1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Potter Avenue & Fairview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Manor Rd/Rice Av, 0.3 miles away, for the S54.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manor Rd/Rice Av S54
    0.3 miles
    S54

Next buses at this stop

  1. S54 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Reon Avenue & Staten Island Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1774 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.6 miles

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
10314
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
50
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westerleigh-Castleton Corners
Elevation
204 feet above sea level

This corner is also named James Lane III Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

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 1925 and 1950.

Trees

Eight trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on James Lane III 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 March 2017 and July 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Fairview Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Potter Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clove Lakes Park
    890 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

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 Fairview Avenue or Potter Avenue.

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