West Castor Place & Alverson Loop

West Castor Place and Alverson Loop meet at a three-way junction in Arden Heights-Rossville, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Princes Bay Finance Post Station is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Woodrow Rd/Alverson Av, is 910 feet away for the S56, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and one place to eat. About 170 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1986 and 2001, almost all in houses of one or two.

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West Castor Place & Alverson Loop Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Woodrow Rd/Alverson Av, 910 feet away, for the S56.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Woodrow Rd/Alverson Av S56
    910 feet
    S56

Next buses at this stop

  1. S56 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the West Shore Expressway northbound at Arthur Kill Road & Veterans Road East, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1550 Arthur Kill Road Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 4350 Arthur Kill Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.3 miles

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 June 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10309
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 3
City Council district
51
Police precinct
123
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Arden Heights-Rossville
Elevation
118 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 170 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 1986 and 2001.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the silver maple.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building

Community centers and public services

  1. Princes Bay Finance Post Station Post office
    630 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and four food stores.

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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

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.