Watchogue Road & Bidwell Avenue

Watchogue Road and Bidwell Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Holy Family R C Church is 1,130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Watchogue Rd/Livermore Av, is 290 feet away for the S57, SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Watchogue Rd/Livermore Av · S57, SIM3, SIM3C, SIM34
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 listed historic place, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Watchogue Road & Bidwell Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Watchogue Rd/Livermore Av, 290 feet away, for the S57, SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Watchogue Rd/Livermore Av S57, SIM3, SIM3C, SIM34
    290 feet
    S57 SIM3 SIM3C SIM34

Next buses at this stop

  1. S57 …
  2. SIM3 …
  3. SIM3C …
  4. SIM34 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at North Gannon Avenue & Mann Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2071 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10314
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
50
Police precinct
121
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westerleigh-Castleton Corners
Elevation
61 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1920 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Watchogue Road

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built in 1730.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Peter Houseman House Listed historic place
    610 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Family R C Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place 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 and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bidwell Avenue or Watchogue Road.

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