Willow Road East & Dr M L King Jr Expressway

Willow Road East and Dr M L King Jr Expressway meet at a three-way junction in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Mission Christian Rebohot is 950 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Willow Rd East, is 880 feet away for the S48, S59, S98 and two more, and 14 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Dr M L King Jr Expressway
1,270 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
880 feet
Forest Av/Willow Rd East · S48, S59, S98, SIM3 +1
Within a walk
4 places
1 park, 1 playground and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Willow Road East & Dr M L King Jr Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Willow Rd East, 880 feet away, for the S48, S59, S98, SIM3 and SIM3C.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Willow Rd East S48, S59, S98, SIM3 +1
    880 feet
    S48 S59 S98 SIM3 SIM3C

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …
  2. S59 …
  3. S98 …
  4. SIM3 …
  5. SIM3C …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

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, 1,270 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 745 Port Richmond Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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
31 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • A posted limit of 30 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 200 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 1962 and 1994.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 051 Edwin Markham School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Markham Playground
    330 feet
  2. Egbert Triangle
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mission Christian Rebohot House of worship
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Forest Avenue Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • 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:

See every intersection along Dr M L King Jr Expressway or Willow Road East.

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