Watchogue Road & Hawthorne Avenue
Watchogue Road and Hawthorne Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The corner is also named John “Jack” P. Meade Way 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. In 2025, 1,581 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Zion Lutheran Church is 400 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Watchogue Rd/Cambridge Av, is 360 feet away for the SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Watchogue Rd/Cambridge Av, 360 feet away, for the SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34.
- 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Watchogue Rd/Cambridge Av SIM3, SIM3C, SIM34360 feetSIM3 SIM3C SIM34
Next buses at this stop
- SIM3 …
- SIM3C …
- SIM34 …
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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.
- 2509 Victory Boulevard Gas station0.5 miles
- 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers0.9 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Nobody was hurt.
The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2024.
Camera tickets
How tickets are countedIn 2025, 1,581 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 525th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.
In 2026 so far, through August 27, 704 more were issued.
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
- 32 feet above sea level
This corner is also named John “Jack” P. Meade Way, a co-naming enacted on December 20, 2010 (Local Law 3 of 2011).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1955 and 1970.
Trees
NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John “Jack” P. Meade Way.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 1 sign on these blocks
- 1 rule
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.
South side of Watchogue Road
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
Places within a walk
How places are listedOne public place is within a five-minute walk.
- 1 religious building
Houses of worship
- Zion Lutheran Church House of worship400 feet
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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:
- Watchogue Road & Lyon Place 210 feet
- Watchogue Road & Woodbine Avenue 260 feet
- Willowbrook Road & Watchogue Road 300 feet
- Watchogue Road & Levit Avenue 460 feet
- Watchogue Road & Cambridge Avenue 550 feet
- Willowbrook Road & Watchogue Road at Stewart Avenue 550 feet
- Home Place & Lyon Place 640 feet
- Watchogue Road & Tremont Avenue 780 feet
See every intersection along Hawthorne Avenue or Watchogue Road.