Westervelt Avenue & Scribner Avenue

Westervelt Avenue and Scribner Avenue meet at a three-way junction in St. George-New Brighton, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Vanderzee-Harper House, one of six Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 580 feet away. The Tompkinsville station on the SIR is about nine minutes on foot. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest railway station
Tompkinsville
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · SIR
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
Victory Blvd/Brook St · S46, S48, S61, S62 +1
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Westervelt Avenue & Scribner Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Staten Island Railway

The nearest Staten Island Railway station is Tompkinsville, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Tompkinsville SIR · Staten Island Railway
    0.4 miles
    SIR

Next trains at this station

Ferry
1 line
  1. SIR …
South Shore
1 line
  1. SIR …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Victory Blvd/Brook St, 850 feet away, for the S46, S48, S61, S62 and S66.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Victory Blvd/Brook St S46, S48, S61, S62 +1
    850 feet
    S46 S48 S61 S62 S66

Next buses at this stop

  1. S46 …
  2. S48 …
  3. S61 …
  4. S62 …
  5. S66 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 151 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    980 feet
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10301
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
St. George-New Brighton
Elevation
135 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and December 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Scribner Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Scribner Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Westervelt Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are six Individual Landmarks, and seven buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Vernacular. They were mostly built between 1880 and 1882.

  1. Vanderzee-Harper House Designated landmark
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 74 Future Leaders Elementary School
    1,220 feet
  2. Fort Hill Collaborative Elementary School
    1,240 feet
  3. P.S. 016 John J. Driscoll School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Liotti Ikefugi Playground
    790 feet
  2. Fort Hill Park Nature area
    830 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Paul Apostolic Faith Church House of worship
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Scribner Avenue or Westervelt Avenue.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.