Forest Avenue & Oakwood Avenue

Forest Avenue and Oakwood Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Jody and Mary Haggerty Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Temple Israel Reform Congregation is 590 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Hart Blvd, is 180 feet away for the S48, S98 and SIM30, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Forest Avenue & Oakwood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Hart Blvd, 180 feet away, for the S48, S98 and SIM30.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …
  2. S98 …
  3. SIM30 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 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
    0.3 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 one crash at this corner, the median for a Staten Island corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2021.

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
175 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jody and Mary Haggerty Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

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

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 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jody and Mary Haggerty Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and April 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

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

South side of Forest Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 508693 and 510094.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Silver Lake Park
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Israel Reform Congregation Listed historic place
    590 feet
  2. Our Saviour Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    860 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    890 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, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue or Oakwood Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.