St Pauls Avenue & Taxter Place

St Pauls Avenue and Taxter Place meet at a three-way junction in Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named Addison Branch Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the St. Paul's Avenue-Stapleton Heights Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Caleb T. Ward Mansion, one of four Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 520 feet away. The Stapleton station on the SIR is about nine minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Stapleton
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Saint Pauls Av/Cebra Av · S78
Within a walk
8 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Pauls Avenue & Taxter Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Stapleton, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Stapleton SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.5 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, 420 feet away, for the S78.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Pauls Av/Cebra Av S78
    420 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 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 151 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 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
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 February 2020.

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
71 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Addison Branch Way, a co-naming enacted on December 17, 2013 (Local Law 131 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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. 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 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Addison Branch Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2023 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of St Pauls Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the St. Paul's Avenue-Stapleton Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 84 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Colonial. They were mostly built between 1883 and 1922.

  1. St. Paul's Memorial Church Rectory Designated landmark
    440 feet
  2. Caleb T. Ward Mansion Designated landmark
    520 feet
  3. German Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    530 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Eden II School for Autistic Children Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    420 feet
  2. Eden II - Little Miracles School
    480 feet
  3. P.S. 65 the Academy of Innovative Learning School
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 364 and 390 Van Duzer Street Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Landmark
    420 feet
  2. St Pauls Memorial Church Listed historic place
    560 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 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 three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along St Pauls Avenue or Taxter Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.