Forest Avenue & Bard Avenue at City Boulevard

Forest Avenue, Bard Avenue and City Boulevard meet at a five-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Dennis M. Hogan Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Our Saviour Lutheran Church is 130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Bard Av, is 70 feet away for the S48, S98 and SIM30, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
1.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Forest Av/Bard Av · S48, S98, SIM30
Within a walk
2 places
1 religious building and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Forest Avenue & Bard Avenue at City Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Bard Av, 70 feet away, for the S48, S98 and SIM30.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Bard Av S48, S98, SIM30 · Countdown sign
    70 feet
    S48 S98 SIM30
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …
  2. S98 …
  3. SIM30 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 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, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 525 Forest Avenue Gas station
    600 feet
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10310
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
120
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill
Elevation
158 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dennis M. Hogan Way, a co-naming enacted on December 1, 2017 (Local Law 237 of 2017).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are 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 1920 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dennis M. Hogan Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2022 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bard Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bard Avenue

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of City Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of Forest Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Forest Avenue

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 513898 and 514124.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 045 John Tyler School
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Saviour Lutheran Church House of worship
    130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    120 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    370 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    340 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    160 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bard Avenue, City Boulevard or Forest Avenue.

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