Tompkins Avenue & Chestnut Avenue

Tompkins Avenue and Chestnut Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Antonio Meucci Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. De Matti Park is 100 feet away. The Clifton station on the SIR is about ten minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and five places to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Clifton
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Tompkins Av/Chestnut Av · S52, S78
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Tompkins Avenue & Chestnut Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

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

  1. Clifton 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 Tompkins Av/Chestnut Av, 40 feet away, for the S52 and S78.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Chestnut Av S52, S78 · Countdown sign
    40 feet
    S52 S78
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. S52 …
  2. S78 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway eastbound at Hylan Boulevard & Narrows Road South at Staten Island Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 951 Bay Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1 Edgewater Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 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 March 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10305
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Antonio Meucci Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the scarlet oak.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2022 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Chestnut Avenue

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Chestnut Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Tompkins Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Gothic Revival, and built in 1845.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. The Richmond Pre-K Center at 375 Tompkins Avenue Pre-K center
    760 feet
  2. Most Terrific Child Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. De Matti Park
    100 feet
  2. De Matti Park Playground
    120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Garibaldi Memorial Listed historic place
    120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs Church House of worship
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Market Fresh Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    590 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Chestnut Avenue or Tompkins Avenue.

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