Forest Avenue & Hart Boulevard

Forest Avenue and Hart Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Architect Allen B. Terjesen Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Temple Israel Reform Congregation is 310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Hart Blvd, is 110 feet away for the S48, S98 and SIM30, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Forest Av/Hart Blvd · S48, S98, SIM30
Within a walk
3 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Forest Avenue & Hart Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Hart Blvd, 110 feet away, for the S48, S98 and SIM30.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Hart Blvd S48, S98, SIM30
    110 feet
    S48 S98 SIM30

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …
  2. S98 …
  3. SIM30 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 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, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2023

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)
West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill
Elevation
183 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Architect Allen B. Terjesen Way, a co-naming enacted on March 18, 2017 (Local Law 45 of 2017).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1937.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Architect Allen B. Terjesen Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Forest Avenue

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

South side of Forest Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Hart Boulevard

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Hart Boulevard

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 510094.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Silver Lake Park
    650 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Israel Reform Congregation Listed historic place
    310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,180 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and one food store.

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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue or Hart Boulevard.

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.