Forest Avenue & Sharon Avenue

Forest Avenue and Sharon Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named Firefighter Kenneth B. Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, the median for a Staten Island corner. Our Saviour Lutheran Church is 900 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Sharon Av, is 70 feet away for the S48, 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 19 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Forest Av/Sharon Av · S48
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 & Sharon Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Sharon Av, 70 feet away, for the S48.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Sharon Av S48
    70 feet
    S48

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …

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, 2 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
    1.8 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 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
159 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter Kenneth B. Way, a co-naming enacted on June 3, 2003 (Local Law 34 of 2003).

The streets

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

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 1920 and 1937.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 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 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Sharon Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Sharon Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 507470, 508693, 510094 and 514036.

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
    900 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Silver Lake Park
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

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

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    550 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    590 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,030 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and three 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue or Sharon 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.