St Pauls Avenue & Paxton Street

St Pauls Avenue and Paxton Street meet at a three-way junction in Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island. The corner lies inside the St. Paul's Avenue-Stapleton Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. St. Paul's Church (first) Rectory stands 120 feet away. The Tompkinsville station on the SIR is about nine minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and two places to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Tompkinsville
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Saint Pauls Av/Paxton St · S78
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Pauls Avenue & Paxton Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

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

  1. Tompkinsville 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/Paxton St, 110 feet away, for the S78.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Pauls Av/Paxton St S78
    110 feet
    S78

Next buses at this stop

  1. S78 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Pauls Avenue.

  • 1 bicycle rack 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, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 248 Bay Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, the median for a Staten Island corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2023.

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)
Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2023 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Paxton Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of St Pauls Avenue

  • No standing 4 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 four Individual Landmarks, and 37 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Colonial. They were mostly built between 1866 and 1929.

  1. St. Paul's Church (first) Rectory Designated landmark
    120 feet
  2. Audre Lorde Residence Designated landmark
    230 feet
  3. St. Paul's Memorial Church Rectory Designated landmark
    430 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 65 the Academy of Innovative Learning School
    390 feet
  2. Eden II School for Autistic Children Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet
  3. Eden II - Little Miracles School
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Memorial Church Landmark · listed historic place
    350 feet
  2. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along St Pauls Avenue.

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