Although it only issued its first summons on June 1, the enforcement camera, located near the intersection of Hylan Boulevard and Dole Street, generated 3,096 speeding tickets through the end of July, according to data. That number of tickets, worth around $154,800 in fines, made this camera the fifth most active speed camera location in the borough during that time.
CLOCKING THE SPEED
During a visit to some of the most active speed camera sites on Staten Island this week, the Advance/SILive.com — armed with a radar gun — measured the speed of 40 cars as they headed down Hylan Boulevard toward Tottenville, the same direction that the camera faces.The speed limit on Hylan, the borough’s major thoroughfare infamous for bad driver behavior, vehicle crashes, and car collisions with pedestrians and cyclists, is 30 MPH.
Of the 40 cars recorded near Hylan and Dole Street, more than half the drivers were clocked over the speed limit.
The average driver during this time was doing 31.5 MPH, which is faster than the posted limit, but not by much.
HOW MANY TICKETS?
Around 86,100 speed camera tickets were issued on Staten Island between May 28 and July 28, slightly below the 102,790 summonses issued between March and May of this year, according to the most recent data from New York City.
The most active speed camera in that two-month period is located at Goethals Road North and Jules Drive. That camera issued 4,991 summonses for a total of $249,550 in fines, according to the data.
In total, Staten Island speed cameras have generated around $12 million in fines so far in 2025, according to the publicly available information from New York City’s Open Data portal.
In 2024, drivers on Staten Island had to pay more than $22 million in speed camera fines, with over 441,900 tickets issued in the borough.
On June 18, the New York State Assembly passed legislation that would renew New York City’s speed camera program.
The bill, which also passed in the state Senate on June 13, would extend the city’s school zone speed camera program by another five years, through July 2030.
The current bill that authorizes New York City’s speed camera program, operated by the Department of Transportation, is set to expire on July 1.
'BOULEVARD OF DEATH'
Over the last several years, Hylan Boulevard has developed an unsavory reputation.
Dubbed the “Boulevard of Death” by transportation advocates, Hylan Boulevard claims more lives than any other street across the borough, according to data.
In February, an analysis of publicly available crash data for 2024 from the NYPD found that there were nine intersections on the Island that stood out from the rest as they were the scene of multiple collisions which resulted in reported injuries.
Five of those intersections were located along Hylan Boulevard.
In April, the Advance/SILive.com spoke with four Staten Islanders whose lives were affected by Hylan Boulevard, primarily on the South Shore.
There were seven pedestrian deaths on Staten Island between late 2024 and early 2025. Three of those deaths happened along Hylan Boulevard.
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