Forest Avenue & Hoyt Avenue

Forest Avenue and Hoyt Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Firefighter Michael Fiore Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Our Saviour Lutheran Church is 310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Bard Av, is 240 feet away for the S48, S98 and SIM30, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and 24 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Forest Avenue & Hoyt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Bard Av, 240 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
    240 feet
    S48 S98 SIM30
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …
  2. S98 …
  3. SIM30 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 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
    880 feet
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024

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
157 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter Michael Fiore Way, a co-naming enacted on January 7, 2003 (Local Law 6 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 300 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 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter Michael Fiore Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2024 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 6pm on Forest Avenue (south side).

North side of Forest Avenue

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

East side of Hoyt Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Hoyt Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 507714 and 514124.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 religious building

Houses of worship

  1. Our Saviour Lutheran Church House of worship
    310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    100 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    60 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    440 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and five 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 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue or Hoyt 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.