Victory Boulevard & Van Duzer Street

Victory Boulevard and Van Duzer Street meet at a four-way crossing in Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island. The corner is also named New York Poet Laureate Audre Lorde Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Tompkinsville Park is 390 feet away, and Lyons Diving Pool is 1,300 feet away. The Tompkinsville station on the SIR is about three minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Tompkinsville
900 feet · 3 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Victory Blvd/Montgomery Av · S46, S48, S61, S62 +1
Within a walk
17 places
6 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Victory Boulevard & Van Duzer Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Tompkinsville, 900 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Tompkinsville SIR · Staten Island Railway
    900 feet
    SIR

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Victory Blvd/Montgomery Av, 70 feet away, for the S46, S48, S61, S62 and S66.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Victory Blvd/Montgomery Av S46, S48, S61, S62 +1
    70 feet
    S46 S48 S61 S62 S66

Next buses at this stop

  1. S46 …
  2. S48 …
  3. S61 …
  4. S62 …
  5. S66 …

Live arrivals

Victory Boulevard carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, 7am to 9am on weekdays.

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Van Duzer Street.

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Narrows Road North & Staten Island Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 248 Bay Street Gas station
    1,070 feet
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,150 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2016
  • Turn calming, March 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10301
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 New York Poet Laureate Audre Lorde Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on New York Poet Laureate Audre Lorde Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2023 and November 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8am to 7pm on Victory Boulevard (north side).

East side of Montgomery Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN'S SERVICES MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO DEPT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION & DEVELOPMENT MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO SHERIFF'S OFFICE MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Montgomery Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Van Duzer Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 4 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 508423 and 511803.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Tompkinsville Park.

  1. The Hiker Statue by Allen G. Newman, 1916
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 3 swimming pools
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 74 Future Leaders Elementary School
    660 feet
  2. Fort Hill Collaborative Elementary School
    930 feet
  3. P.S. 016 John J. Driscoll School
    930 feet
Show all 5
  1. Seamen's Society for Children and Families Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet
  2. Career School of NY Trade or language school
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Tompkinsville Park
    390 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethel Community Church House of worship
    540 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Lyons Pool Recreation Center
    1,040 feet
  2. Lyons Pool Swimming pool
    1,110 feet
  3. Lyons Wading Pool Swimming pool
    1,200 feet
Show all 5
  1. Criminal Court House Courthouse
    1,300 feet
  2. Lyons Diving Pool Swimming pool
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    670 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Empire Outlets Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 23 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Montgomery Avenue, Van Duzer Street or Victory Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.