St Marks Place & Hamilton Avenue

St Marks Place and Hamilton Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in St. George-New Brighton, Staten Island. The corner is also named Earlene Bethel-Sperling Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Lt. Lia Playground is 470 feet away, and Staten Island Workforce1 Career Center is 1,200 feet away. The St George station on the SIR is about ten minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them parks, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
St George
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Saint Marks Pl/Hamilton Av · S42, S52
Within a walk
15 places
3 parks, 2 career or business centers and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Marks Place & Hamilton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is St George, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Marks Pl/Hamilton Av, 110 feet away, for the S42 and S52.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Marks Pl/Hamilton Av S42, S52
    110 feet
    S42 S52

Next buses at this stop

  1. S42 …
  2. S52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2024

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
118 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Earlene Bethel-Sperling Way, a co-naming enacted on October 2, 2012 (Local Law 48 of 2012).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 23 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the hedge maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Earlene Bethel-Sperling Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2024 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hamilton Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Hamilton Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of St Marks Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of St Marks Place

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1886 and 1935.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 career or business centers
  • 2 schools
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Curtis High School Landmark
    720 feet
  2. Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical Education High School
    800 feet
  3. The Richmond Pre-K Center at 120 Stuyvesant Place Pre-K center
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Willsey Institute Trade or language school
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lt. Lia Playground
    470 feet
  2. St. George Park
    800 feet
  3. North Shore Esplanade Park
    1,030 feet
Show all 5
  1. St. George Esplanade Park
    1,150 feet
  2. Westervelt Community Garden
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at NY Wheel Public space
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brighton Heights Reformed Church Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Richmond Family Court Courthouse · landmark
    690 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

Fire and police

  1. 120th Precinct Police station · landmark
    1,020 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Empire Outlets Shopping center
    1,290 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hamilton Avenue 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYC Finance and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.