Waters Avenue & Deems Avenue

Waters Avenue and Deems Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Engine 163/Ladder 83 firehouse is 860 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Jewett Av/Waters Av, is 360 feet away for the S66, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Jewett Av/Waters Av · S66
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 fire station and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Waters Avenue & Deems Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jewett Av/Waters Av, 360 feet away, for the S66.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jewett Av/Waters Av S66
    360 feet
    S66

Next buses at this stop

  1. S66 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at North Gannon Avenue & Mann Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2000 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.8 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
107 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 500 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 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Waters Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 030 Westerleigh School
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Peter Houseman House Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. El Bethel Assembly God Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 163/Ladder 83 Fire station
    860 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

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 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Deems Avenue or Waters Avenue.

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