Sleight Avenue & George Street

Sleight Avenue and George Street meet at a three-way junction in Tottenville-Charleston, Staten Island. The corner is also named Firefighter Paul M. Beyer, FDNY Avenue by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, Hylan Blvd/Yetman Av, is 910 feet away for the S59 and S78, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1965 and 2001, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Sleight Avenue & George Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hylan Blvd/Yetman Av, 910 feet away, for the S59 and S78.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hylan Blvd/Yetman Av S59, S78
    910 feet
    S59 S78

Next buses at this stop

  1. S59 …
  2. S78 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the West Shore Expressway northbound at Boscombe Avenue, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6778 Hylan Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 4350 Arthur Kill Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.4 miles

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 December 2013.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10307
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
123
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tottenville-Charleston
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter Paul M. Beyer, FDNY Avenue, a co-naming enacted on December 21, 2004 (Local Law 63 of 2004).

The streets

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

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 1965 and 2001.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter Paul M. Beyer, FDNY Avenue.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Sleight Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

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

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