Veterans Road East & Rossville Avenue

Veterans Road East and Rossville Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Arden Heights-Rossville, Staten Island. The corner is also named Lt. Brendan Drew Pearson Way, Sta. 23 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. The sculpture “Working in the Same Direction” is 70 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rossville Av/Veterans Rd East, is 100 feet away for the S74, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and two places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
West Shore Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Rossville Av/Veterans Rd East · S74
Within a walk
3 places
1 cemetery, 1 fire station and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Veterans Road East & Rossville Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rossville Av/Veterans Rd East, 100 feet away, for the S74.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rossville Av/Veterans Rd East S74
    100 feet
    S74

Next buses at this stop

  1. S74 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the West Shore Expressway southbound at Veterans Road West & West Shore Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1550 Arthur Kill Road Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 4350 Arthur Kill Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.1 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10309
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
123
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Arden Heights-Rossville
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Lt. Brendan Drew Pearson Way, Sta. 23, a co-naming enacted on April 20, 2009 (Local Law 25 of 2009).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2001 and 2006.

Trees

Sixteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lt. Brendan Drew Pearson Way, Sta. 23.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Rossville Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Veterans Road East

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Veterans Road East

  • Authorized vehicles only 4 signs AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Fire and Emergency Station.

  1. Working in the Same Direction Sculpture by Béatrice Coron, 2003
    70 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sleight Family Graveyard Cemetery
    950 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Joseph Church House of worship
    460 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 168 Fire station
    240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Fresh Supermarket
    980 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Rossville Shopping Center Shopping center
    890 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rossville Avenue or Veterans Road East.

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