St Pauls Avenue & Cebra Avenue

St Pauls Avenue and Cebra Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named Crossing Guard Joan Rice Way by local law. It lies inside the St. Paul's Avenue-Stapleton Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. In 2025, 180 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church is 80 feet away. The Stapleton station on the SIR is about nine minutes on foot.

Safety record
4 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Stapleton
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Saint Pauls Av/Cebra Av · S78
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Pauls Avenue & Cebra Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Stapleton, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Stapleton SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Pauls Av/Cebra Av, 40 feet away, for the S78.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Pauls Av/Cebra Av S78
    40 feet
    S78

Next buses at this stop

  1. S78 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Pauls Avenue.

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Narrows Road North & Staten Island Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 151 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 180 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,654th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 112 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10304
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills
Elevation
87 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Crossing Guard Joan Rice Way, a co-naming enacted on June 14, 2007 (Local Law 28 of 2007).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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 1901 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Crossing Guard Joan Rice Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of St Pauls Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the St. Paul's Avenue-Stapleton Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 99 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Colonial. They were mostly built between 1887 and 1921.

  1. German Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    100 feet
  2. (former) Kingsley Methodist Church Designated landmark
    230 feet
  3. Kingsley Methodist Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    240 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Eden II - Little Miracles School
    80 feet
  2. Eden II School for Autistic Children Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    80 feet
  3. Tiny Treasures Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 364 and 390 Van Duzer Street Listed historic place
    780 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Landmark
    80 feet
  2. St Pauls Memorial Church Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
  3. First Central Baptist Church House of worship
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cebra Avenue or St Pauls Avenue.

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