Arden Heights-Rossville

Neighborhood · Staten Island

Arden Heights-Rossville spreads across Staten Island's South Shore toward the Arthur Kill, taking in Arden Heights, Rossville, Woodrow and the historic community of Sandy Ground.

  • 2.43 square miles
  • 30,683 residents, 2020 Census
  • 356 street corners
  • 13 bus routes

Rossville was called Blazing Star in the mid-1700s, after a tavern, and its ferry crossed to New Jersey; renamed for William E. Ross by the 1830s, it keeps the Blazing Star Burial Ground, one of the island's earliest community cemeteries, with gravestones from 1750. Sandy Ground, where free African Americans bought land starting in 1828 and worked in the oyster trade, is among the nation's oldest such communities, and Woodrow's plain Greek Revival Methodist church dates from 1842.

Sources: Sleight Family Graveyard (The Rossville (Blazing Star) Burial Ground) Designation Report (LP-0387, January 17, 1968) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Woodrow Methodist Church Designation Report (LP-0385, November 15, 1967) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Rossville, Staten Island (Wikipedia).

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Arden Heights-Rossville borders five areas, and Woodrow Road holds more of its corners than any other street, 35 of 356.

Street map of Arden Heights-Rossville, Staten Island, outlined among Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow, Freshkills Park (South), Great Kills-Eltingville and Tottenville-Charleston, with Arden Woods.Freshkills Park (South)Freshkills Park (North)Great Kills-EltingvilleAnnadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-WoodrowTottenville-Charleston
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 13 routes stop in or at the edge of Arden Heights-Rossville.

  • 4 local bus routes
  • 9 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S55
  • S56
  • S74
  • S84

Express bus routes

  • SIM2
  • SIM4
  • SIM4C
  • SIM8
  • SIM22
  • SIM23
  • SIM24
  • SIM25
  • SIM26

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Staten Island corner.

  • 497 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 1.4 a corner, on average
  • 2.2 the average Staten Island corner
  • 192 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 25 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
24
Leading pedestrian intervals
5
Turn calming
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 3,480 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Bloomingdale Road & Shiel Avenue, 1,791

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 30,683 residents in Arden Heights-Rossville, about 12,600 per square mile.

  • 11,193 homes, 2020 Census
  • 412 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 8,183 residential lots hold buildings from 1987 or earlier, and 1% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
146.1 acres of Arden Woods, as NYC Parks maps it within Arden Heights-Rossville
Designated landmark
The Woodrow United Methodist Church

Streets and trees

Trees
8,175 in NYC Parks' records, most often Callery pear, red maple and sweetgum
Street with the most corners
Woodrow Road, with 35 of the area's 356
Height above sea level
From 8 feet at Arthur Kill Road & Rossville Avenue to 153 feet at Powell Street & Shift Place
Honorary street names
11 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists four schools in Arden Heights-Rossville.

Public schools
4

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Arden Heights-Rossville: Working in the Same Direction (2003).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 113 major felonies at places in Arden Heights-Rossville.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Arden Heights-Rossville

  • 95 major felonies in 2024
  • 463 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Arden Heights-Rossville, the NYPD recorded another 11 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 4.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Arden Heights-Rossville.

Police precinct
123rd
Major felonies recorded at places in Arden Heights-Rossville, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 61 major felonies at places in Arden Heights-Rossville, against 54 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.