Tompkins Avenue & Vanderbilt Avenue

Tompkins Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named George Doyle Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Stapleton Post Office is 210 feet away. The Clifton station on the SIR is about seven minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them nursing homes or hospices.

Safety record
6 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Clifton
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Tompkins Av/Vanderbilt Av · S52, S78, SIM30
Within a walk
9 places
2 nursing homes or hospices, 2 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Tompkins Avenue & Vanderbilt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Clifton, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Clifton SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.3 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/Vanderbilt Av, 50 feet away, for the S52, S78 and SIM30.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Vanderbilt Av S52, S78, SIM30 · Shelter
    50 feet
    S52 S78 SIM30
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. S52 …
  2. S78 …
  3. SIM30 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Vanderbilt Avenue.

  • 13 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, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 425 Vanderbilt Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1 Edgewater Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1232 Hylan Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2024

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
56 feet above sea level

This corner is also named George Doyle Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1971.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on George Doyle 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 August 2021 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Tompkins Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No standing 9 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 78 School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hill Street Community Garden
    890 feet
  2. Rev. Dr. Maggie Howard Playground
    1,080 feet

Health care

  1. New Vanderbilt Rehabilitation and Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    500 feet
  2. Richmond Center for Rehabilitation and Specialty Healthcare Nursing home or hospice
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Trinity Ukrainian Church House of worship
    1,270 feet
  2. Vanderbilt Ave Moravian Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Stapleton Post Office
    210 feet
  2. Stapleton Playground Pool Swimming pool
    1,160 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Tompkins Avenue or Vanderbilt Avenue.

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