Forest Avenue & Walbrooke Avenue

Forest Avenue and Walbrooke Avenue meet at a three-way junction in West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. Silver Lake Park is 1,280 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Forest Av/Walbrooke Av, is 90 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
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Staten Island Expressway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Forest Av/Walbrooke 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 & Walbrooke Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Walbrooke Av, 90 feet away, for the S48.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Walbrooke Av S48
    90 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 three crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash 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 June 2025.

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

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2014 and January 2025, 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 8 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Walbrooke Avenue

  • Time-limited parking 1 sign 2 HOUR PARKING 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Walbrooke Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 507471, 513408 and 513409.

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
    930 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Silver Lake Park
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

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

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    520 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    550 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    990 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, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue or Walbrooke Avenue.

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