Woolley Avenue & Watchogue Road

Woolley Avenue and Watchogue Road meet at a four-way crossing in Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Holy Family R C Church is 490 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Watchogue Rd/Livermore Av, is 160 feet away for the S57, SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

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Woolley Avenue & Watchogue Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Watchogue Rd/Livermore Av, 160 feet away, for the S57, SIM3, SIM3C and SIM34.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Watchogue Rd/Livermore Av S57, SIM3, SIM3C, SIM34
    160 feet
    S57 SIM3 SIM3C SIM34

Next buses at this stop

  1. S57 …
  2. SIM3 …
  3. SIM3C …
  4. SIM34 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at North Gannon Avenue & Mann Avenue, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2071 Victory Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.3 miles

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2023

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
43 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1925 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Watchogue Road

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

South side of Watchogue Road

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Woolley Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Peter Houseman House Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Family R C Church House of worship
    490 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

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