Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills

Neighborhood · Staten Island

Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills runs along Staten Island's East Shore just south of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, taking in Arrochar, South Beach, Grasmere, Concord, Old Town and Dongan Hills.

  • 2.87 square miles
  • 36,259 residents, 2020 Census
  • 475 street corners
  • 3 Staten Island Railway stations
  • 23 bus routes

Arrochar was named in the 1840s by an estate owner for his hometown in Scotland, and Dongan Hills honors Thomas Dongan, an Irish-born governor of colonial New York. By the mid-1880s South Beach had become a resort with a boardwalk, a carousel and rides, and in the 1930s the Works Progress Administration built a 2.5-mile boardwalk along the shore, dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939.

Sources: F.D.R. Boardwalk - Staten Island NY (The Living New Deal); South Beach, Staten Island (Wikipedia); Arrochar, Staten Island (Wikipedia); Dongan Hills, Staten Island (Wikipedia).

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Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills borders four areas, and Hylan Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 43 of 475.

Street map of Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, Staten Island, outlined among New Dorp-Midland Beach, Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill and Fort Wadsworth, with its three Staten Island Railway stations and Ocean Breeze Park.Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park HillFort WadsworthNew Dorp-Midland BeachTodt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights
  • Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Staten Island Railway stations

  • Grasmere lines SIR
  • Old Town lines SIR
  • Dongan Hills lines SIR accessible

Getting around

The Staten Island Railway stops at Dongan Hills, Grasmere and Old Town, and buses on 23 routes stop in or at the edge of Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills.

  • 3 Staten Island Railway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 11 local bus routes
  • 12 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S51
  • S52
  • S53
  • S74
  • S76
  • S78
  • S79-SBS
  • S81
  • S84
  • S86
  • S93

Express bus routes

  • SIM1
  • SIM1C
  • SIM3C
  • SIM5
  • SIM6
  • SIM7
  • SIM9
  • SIM10
  • SIM11
  • SIM15
  • SIM33C
  • SIM35

Safety record

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

  • 1,445 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 3.0 a corner, on average
  • 2.2 the average Staten Island corner
  • 171 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 44 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
43
Leading pedestrian intervals
15
Turn calming
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 6,053 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 30,132 school-zone speed camera tickets at 22 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Seaview Avenue & Mason Avenue, 7,186

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 36,259 residents in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, about 12,600 per square mile.

  • 13,492 homes, 2020 Census
  • 517 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 7,660 residential lots hold buildings from 1965 or earlier, and 19% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Berry and South Beach developments lie wholly or partly within Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
259.1 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Ocean Breeze Park (136.6 acres), Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach (94.8 acres) and Bradys Pond Park (6.4 acres)
Designated landmark
The Pierre Billiou House

Streets and trees

Trees
7,395 in NYC Parks' records, most often Callery pear, London planetree and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Hylan Boulevard, with 43 of the area's 475
Height above sea level
From 3 feet at Alex Circle & Doty Avenue to 148 feet at Vista Place & Piedmont Avenue
Honorary street names
40 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and one library in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills.

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
8
Library
South Beach Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills: Concord World War II Memorial (1947), Father Capodanno Memorial (1976) and Fountain of the Dolphins (1998).

  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 245 major felonies at places in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills

  • 239 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,215 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, the NYPD recorded another 40 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 7.9 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills.

Police precinct
122nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 106 major felonies at places in Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, against 129 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.