Tompkins Street & Brownell Street

Tompkins Street and Brownell Street meet at a three-way junction in Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named Social Activist Joseph N. Gumbs Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Light of the Gospel Arabic Church is 100 feet away. The Stapleton station on the SIR is about five minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Stapleton
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
Bay St/Broad St · S51, S76
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Tompkins Street & Brownell Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

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

  1. Stapleton SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.3 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Also within a walk

  1. Clifton SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay St/Broad St, 520 feet away, for the S51 and S76.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay St/Broad St S51, S76
    520 feet
    S51 S76

Next buses at this stop

  1. S51 …
  2. S76 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 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, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 250 Broad Street Gas station
    0.5 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
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2022.

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
33 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Social Activist Joseph N. Gumbs Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 68 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Social Activist Joseph N. Gumbs Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in June 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Tompkins Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Tompkins Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and seven buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were built between 1834 and 1937.

  1. Boardman-Mitchell House Designated landmark
    260 feet
  2. Seaman's Retreat, Physician-in-Chief's Residence Designated landmark
    460 feet
  3. Seaman's Retreat: Main Building Designated landmark
    640 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Tappen Park
    970 feet
  2. Rev. Dr. Maggie Howard Playground
    1,090 feet
  3. Stapleton Esplanade Park
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. Rumc-Bayley Seton Hospital
    920 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stapleton Library
    970 feet
  2. Edgewater Village Hall and Tappen Park Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Light of the Gospel Arabic Church House of worship
    100 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 153/Ladder 77 Fire station
    770 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,020 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brownell Street or Tompkins Street.

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