Victory Boulevard & Melvin Avenue

Victory Boulevard and Melvin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis, Staten Island. The corner is also named Janice Blanchard 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. In 2025, 873 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St Anthony Padua RC Church is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Victory Blvd/Wild Av, is 50 feet away for the S62 and S92. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them parks, and four places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
West Shore Expressway
1,190 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Victory Blvd/Wild Av · S62, S92
Within a walk
8 places
2 parks, 2 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Victory Boulevard & Melvin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Victory Blvd/Wild Av, 50 feet away, for the S62 and S92.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Victory Blvd/Wild Av S62, S92
    50 feet
    S62 S92

Next buses at this stop

  1. S62 …
  2. S92 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the West Shore Expressway northbound at Glen Street & West Shore Expressway, 1,190 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 180 West Service Road Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 266 West Service Road Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.4 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2025
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 873 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 847th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 287 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10314
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
50
Police precinct
121
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis
Elevation
35 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Janice Blanchard Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

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

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Janice Blanchard Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and February 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Melvin Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Melvin Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Victory Boulevard

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Victory Boulevard

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./I.S. 26 the Carteret School
    260 feet
  2. Staten Island Rise Academy School
    890 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sylvan Grove Cemetery Park · listed historic place
    130 feet
  2. Meredith Woods Nature area
    830 feet
  3. Schmul Park
    840 feet
Show all 4
  1. Schmul Park Playground
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Anthony Padua RC Church House of worship
    620 feet
  2. Staten Island Christian Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Melvin Avenue or Victory Boulevard.

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