Tompkins Avenue & Hill Street

Tompkins Avenue and Hill Street meet at a three-way junction in Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named School Security Agent Sandra P. Cranford Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. P.S. 78 is 240 feet away, and Richmond Center for Rehabilitation and Specialty Healthcare is 390 feet away. The Clifton station on the SIR is about ten minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Clifton
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Tompkins Av/Hill St · S52, S78
Within a walk
10 places
3 schools, 2 nursing homes or hospices and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Tompkins Avenue & Hill Street 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/Hill St, 120 feet away, for the S52 and S78.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Hill St S52, S78
    120 feet
    S52 S78

Next buses at this stop

  1. S52 …
  2. S78 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 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, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 250 Broad Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1 Edgewater Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2015
  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2016

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
51 feet above sea level

This corner is also named School Security Agent Sandra P. Cranford Way, a co-naming enacted on February 25, 2016 (Local Law 23 of 2016).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 190 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

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

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on School Security Agent Sandra P. Cranford Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hill Street

  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Hill Street

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

West side of Tompkins Avenue

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1853 and 1937.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 78 School
    240 feet
  2. I.S. 49 Berta A. Dreyfus School
    1,060 feet
  3. The Eagle Academy for Young Men of Staten Island School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rev. Dr. Maggie Howard Playground
    320 feet
  2. Hill Street Community Garden
    330 feet

Health care

  1. Richmond Center for Rehabilitation and Specialty Healthcare Nursing home or hospice
    390 feet
  2. New Vanderbilt Rehabilitation and Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Stapleton Playground Pool Swimming pool
    410 feet
  2. Stapleton Post Office
    570 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,110 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Hill Street or Tompkins Avenue.

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