Tompkins Avenue & Tompkins Street

Tompkins Avenue and Tompkins Street meet at a three-way junction in Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named Rev. Maggie Howard Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. In 2025, 139 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Rev. Dr. Maggie Howard Playground is 40 feet away. The Stapleton station on the SIR is about eight minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places and five places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Stapleton
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Tompkins Av/Broad St · S52, S78
Within a walk
17 places
7 religious buildings, 1 community center and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Tompkins Avenue & Tompkins Street 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 eight 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 Tompkins Av/Broad St, 200 feet away, for the S52 and S78.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Broad St S52, S78 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    200 feet
    S52 S78
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. S52 …
  2. S78 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 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, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 139 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,704th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any 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
28 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rev. Maggie Howard Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 95 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rev. Maggie Howard Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Tompkins Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 78 School
    740 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rev. Dr. Maggie Howard Playground
    40 feet
  2. Hill Street Community Garden
    1,070 feet
  3. Tappen Park
    1,180 feet

Health care

  1. Richmond Center for Rehabilitation and Specialty Healthcare Nursing home or hospice
    560 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stapleton Library
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Light of the Gospel Arabic Church House of worship
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Stapleton Playground Pool Swimming pool
    380 feet
  2. Carter, Gerard Stapleton Community Center
    1,080 feet
  3. Stapleton Post Office
    1,310 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 153/Ladder 77 Fire station
    920 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    370 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Tompkins Avenue or Tompkins Street.

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