Watchogue Road & Crystal Avenue

Watchogue Road and Crystal Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Zion Lutheran Church is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Watchogue Rd/Crystal Av, is 90 feet away for the S57, SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Dr M L King Jr Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Watchogue Rd/Crystal Av · S57, SIM3, SIM3C, SIM34
Within a walk
3 places
3 religious buildings, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Watchogue Road & Crystal Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Watchogue Rd/Crystal Av, 90 feet away, for the S57, SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Watchogue Rd/Crystal Av S57, SIM3, SIM3C, SIM34
    90 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 Dr M L King Jr Expressway northbound at Trantor Place & Dr M L King Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2509 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2023

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
40 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1945 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Crystal Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Crystal Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Family R C Church House of worship
    240 feet
  2. Zion Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,030 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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Crystal Avenue or Watchogue Road.

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