Forest Avenue & Silver Lake Park Road

Forest Avenue and Silver Lake Park Road meet at a four-way crossing in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. The corner is also named NYS Assemblyman 2000-2007 Hon. John W. Lavelle 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. Forest Mall is 940 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Silver Lake Park, is 100 feet away for the S48 and SIM30. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them parks.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
1.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Forest Av/Silver Lake Park · S48, SIM30
Within a walk
4 places
2 parks, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Forest Avenue & Silver Lake Park Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Silver Lake Park, 100 feet away, for the S48 and SIM30.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Silver Lake Park S48, SIM30
    100 feet
    S48 SIM30

Next buses at this stop

  1. S48 …
  2. SIM30 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Silver Lake Park Road.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Staten Island Expressway westbound at Little Clove Road & Cayuga Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 525 Forest Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 30 Bay Street Landing Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.4 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 July 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 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
238 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: NYS Assemblyman 2000-2007 Hon. John W. Lavelle Way (Local Law 48 of 2008, enacted on October 10, 2008) and World War II Veterans Pathway (Local Law 63 of 2004, enacted on December 21, 2004).

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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1956.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2021 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Forest Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-9AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Silver Lake Park
    40 feet
  2. Forest Mall
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Israel Reform Congregation Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue, Havenwood Road or Silver Lake Park Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.