Staten Island

Staten Island is the one borough whose population has grown since the 2020 Census, when it counted 495,747 residents.

7,067 street corners
16 residential neighborhoods
58.2 square miles of land
501,290 residents Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025

It was named for the States General of the Dutch Republic, joined New York City in 1898 as the borough of Richmond, and took the name Staten Island in 1975.

Neighborhoods

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The island's street corners are spread over 21 neighborhood areas. Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow has more of them than any neighborhood area in the city: 792.

Staten Island's streets and 23 neighborhood areas on a map, with Freshkills Park and the island's other parks.

Neighborhood
Park
Other area

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks.

Residential neighborhoods

Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow 792 corners
Arden Heights-Rossville 356 corners
Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills 475 corners
Great Kills-Eltingville 752 corners
Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville 337 corners
New Dorp-Midland Beach 414 corners
New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis 503 corners
Oakwood-Richmondtown 370 corners
Port Richmond 260 corners
Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill 298 corners
St. George-New Brighton 184 corners
Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights 633 corners
Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills 187 corners
Tottenville-Charleston 367 corners
West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill 488 corners
Westerleigh-Castleton Corners 584 corners

Parks and other areas

five areas

Fort Wadsworth 48 corners
Freshkills Park (North) three corners
Freshkills Park (South) five corners
Great Kills Park five corners
Snug Harbor six corners

Elevation

Three corners on Ocean Terrace, in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, stand 396 feet above sea level, higher than any other corner in the City's elevation survey.

The three highest: Ocean Terrace at Elmhurst Avenue, Dresden Place and Tiber Place
The three lowest: Seaver Avenue & Quincy Avenue, Quincy Avenue & Sioux Street and Patterson Avenue & Graham Boulevard, in New Dorp-Midland Beach, 1 foot above sea level

Getting around

The Staten Island Railway is the island's train line, running from St. George to Tottenville.

21 Staten Island Railway stations
58 bus routes with stops on the island Express routes to Manhattan among them

Safety record

Almost half of the island's corners went without a police-reported crash between 2021 and 2025, the largest share of any borough.

46% of its corners with a clean record
15,656 police-reported crashes in all
1 crash count at the median corner
581 corners with a signal or safety change

Accessible pedestrian signals, which sound and vibrate for people who are blind or have low vision, are the change made most often.

Public safety

How complaints are counted

On Staten Island the NYPD recorded 3,466 major felonies in 2025.

Camera tickets

Bus-lane camera tickets are rare on Staten Island: in 2025 the lists named two corners, both on Hylan Boulevard.

60,840 red-light camera tickets at 28 corners on the list
411,855 school-zone speed camera tickets at 250 corners on the list
1,461 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners on the list

Forest Avenue & Willow Road West had the island's most school-zone speed camera tickets on the list: 28,036.

Staten Island's corners on the city-wide camera-ticket lists: Red-light camera tickets · School-zone speed camera tickets · Bus-lane camera tickets

Parks and trees

Freshkills Park is the island's largest park, followed by LaTourette Park & Golf Course and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach.

139 parks
125,403 trees in NYC Parks' records

Streets

There are 2,530 streets in Staten Island with two or more intersections, each listing its corners in order along the road.

Questions about Staten Island

How many neighborhoods are on Staten Island? On City Planning's 2020 map the island has 23 areas, 16 of them residential neighborhoods.

What is the highest street corner on Staten Island? Ocean Terrace has three, tied at 396 feet, and no corner in the city is higher.

Is Staten Island's population growing? Yes, slightly. The island had 495,747 residents in the 2020 Census and 501,290 in the bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025.

Sources: Staten Island (Encyclopaedia Britannica); Traffic Signals (NYC Department of Transportation).