Forest Avenue & Maple Parkway

Forest Avenue and Maple Parkway meet at a three-way junction in Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville, Staten Island. The corner is also named Vincent C. Pompa Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Graniteville Quarry Park is 660 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Maple Pkwy, is 50 feet away for the S48, S98, SIM30 and three more. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Dr M L King Jr Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Forest Av/Maple Pkwy · S48, S98, SIM30, SIM33 +2
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 nature area and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Forest Avenue & Maple Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Maple Pkwy, 50 feet away, for the S48, S98, SIM30, SIM33 and two more.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Maple Pkwy S48, S98, SIM30, SIM33 +2 · Shelter
    50 feet
    S48 S98 SIM30 SIM33 SIM33C SIM34
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …
  2. S98 …
  3. SIM30 …
  4. SIM33 …
  5. SIM33C …
  6. SIM34 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Dr M L King Jr Expressway southbound at Willow Road West & Dr M L King Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2121 Forest Avenue Gas station
    1,110 feet
  2. 1445 Richmond Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 9 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

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10303
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 1
City Council district
49
Police precinct
121
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Vincent C. Pompa Way, a co-naming enacted on February 5, 2015 (Local Law 15 of 2015).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1985 and 1995.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Vincent C. Pompa Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Forest Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Maple Parkway

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. The Richmond Pre-K Center at 2040 Forest Avenue Pre-K center
    420 feet
  2. Creative Learning Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Graniteville Quarry Park Nature area
    660 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Mariners Harbor Finance Post Office
    560 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    490 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    390 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    460 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Forest Commons Shopping center
    50 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and seven 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue or Maple Parkway.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.