St Marks Place & Fort Place

St Marks Place and Fort Place meet at a three-way junction in St. George-New Brighton, Staten Island. The corner is also named Rev. James L. Seawood Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Brighton Heights Reformed Church is 100 feet away, and Criminal Court House is 560 feet away. The St George station on the SIR is about eight minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, four of them courthouses, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
St George
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Saint Marks Pl/Hyatt St · S42, S52
Within a walk
24 places
4 courthouses, 3 schools and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Marks Place & Fort Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is St George, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. St George SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Also within a walk

  1. Tompkinsville SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Marks Pl/Hyatt St, 80 feet away, for the S42 and S52.

  • 22 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Marks Pl/Hyatt St S42, S52
    80 feet
    S42 S52

Next buses at this stop

  1. S42 …
  2. S52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 2.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 248 Bay Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 54 Central Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1,150 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, the median for a Staten Island corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10301
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
St. George-New Brighton
Elevation
115 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rev. James L. Seawood Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 30 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rev. James L. Seawood Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Fort Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Fort Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of St Marks Place

  • Metered parking 9 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO DEPT OF PROBATION MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as French Renaissance and French Renaissance Revival, one each, and built between 1904 and 1919.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Staten Island Courthouse.

  1. The Passage: A Moving Memorial Installation by Mary Miss, 2012
    320 feet
  2. Staten Island War Memorial Bas-relief by Albert Weinert, 1920
    570 feet
  3. Frank D. Paulo Statue by Amy Rachel Davidson, 1985
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 4 courthouses
  • 3 schools
  • 2 career or business centers
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Career School of NY Trade or language school
    330 feet
  2. Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical Education High School
    510 feet
  3. The Learning Experience - Si, St. George Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    990 feet
Show all 7
  1. The Richmond Pre-K Center at 120 Stuyvesant Place Pre-K center
    1,200 feet
  2. Willsey Institute Trade or language school
    1,200 feet
  3. Fort Hill Collaborative Elementary School
    1,240 feet
  4. P.S. 016 John J. Driscoll School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lt. Lia Playground
    570 feet
  2. Barrett Triangle
    790 feet
  3. Fort Hill Park Nature area
    950 feet
Show all 4
  1. St. George Park
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. St. George Library Center Library
    620 feet
  2. Commodore John Barry Memorial Plaque Monument or memorial · landmark
    810 feet
  3. Staten Island Borough Hall and Richmond County Courthouse Listed historic place
    860 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. St George Theatre Theater or concert hall
    210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brighton Heights Reformed Church Listed historic place
    100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Richmond County Supreme Court Central Av Courthouse
    500 feet
  2. Criminal Court House Courthouse
    560 feet
  3. St George Post Office Ste 2 Post office
    1,110 feet
Show all 7
  1. Richmond County Supreme Court Richmond Ter Courthouse · landmark
    940 feet
  2. NYC Business Solutions Staten Island Center Career or business center
    1,200 feet
  3. Staten Island Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,200 feet
  4. Richmond Family Court Courthouse
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Empire Outlets Shopping center
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Fort Place or St Marks Place.

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