Great Kills-Eltingville

Neighborhood · Staten Island

Great Kills-Eltingville groups Great Kills, Bay Terrace, Greenridge and Eltingville on Staten Island's South Shore, inland from Great Kills Harbor, built in the 1940s with Great Kills Park.

  • 4.19 square miles
  • 54,699 residents, 2020 Census
  • 752 street corners
  • 2 Staten Island Railway stations
  • 23 bus routes

Its name comes from the Dutch kill, meaning creek or channel; a French settler called the area La Grand Kills in 1664, and it has been known as Great Kills since 1865. Eltingville is named for the Elting family, who settled there in the early 1800s, and its station was the Staten Island Railway's terminus until the line reached Tottenville in 1860. Mostly rural into the 1950s, the area filled with new homes after the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964.

Sources: Great Kills Park (The Cultural Landscape Foundation); Great Kills, Staten Island (Wikipedia); Eltingville, Staten Island (Wikipedia).

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Great Kills-Eltingville borders six areas, and Richmond Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 39 of 752.

Street map of Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island, outlined among Oakwood-Richmondtown, Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow, Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights and Arden Heights-Rossville, with its two Staten Island Railway stations and Siedenburg Park.Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor HeightsOakwood-RichmondtownGreat Kills ParkAnnadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-WoodrowArden Heights-RossvilleFreshkills Park (North)
  • Great Kills-Eltingville
  • 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

  • Great Kills lines SIR accessible
  • Eltingville lines SIR

Getting around

The Staten Island Railway stops at Eltingville and Great Kills, and buses on 23 routes stop in or at the edge of Great Kills-Eltingville.

  • 2 Staten Island Railway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 9 local bus routes
  • 14 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S54
  • S55
  • S56
  • S59
  • S74
  • S78
  • S79-SBS
  • S84
  • S89

Express bus routes

  • SIM1
  • SIM1C
  • SIM4
  • SIM4C
  • SIM5
  • SIM6
  • SIM7
  • SIM8
  • SIM9
  • SIM10
  • SIM15
  • SIM22
  • SIM23
  • SIM31

Safety record

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

  • 1,296 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 1.7 a corner, on average
  • 2.2 the average Staten Island corner
  • 362 corners with a clean record

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

Accessible pedestrian signals
44
Leading pedestrian intervals
15
Turn calming
5

Camera tickets

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

  • 4,896 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 40,923 school-zone speed camera tickets at 23 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Arthur Kill Road & Richmond Avenue, 4,896
Most speed tickets
Hylan Boulevard & Ainsworth Avenue, 13,882

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 54,699 residents in Great Kills-Eltingville, about 13,100 per square mile.

  • 21,100 homes, 2020 Census
  • 633 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 15,529 residential lots hold buildings from 1975 or earlier, and 8% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
77.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Siedenburg Park (22.9 acres), King Fisher Park (16.8 acres) and Crescent Beach Park (15.6 acres)
Designated landmarks
Saint Alban's Episcopal Church and the Frederick Douglass Memorial Park Office Building

Streets and trees

Trees
15,857 in NYC Parks' records, most often Callery pear, red maple and sweetgum
Street with the most corners
Richmond Avenue, with 39 of the area's 752
Height above sea level
From 4 feet at Tennyson Drive & Goodall Street to 123 feet at Sycamore Street & Woods of Arden Road
Honorary street names
44 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists nine schools and two libraries in Great Kills-Eltingville.

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
2
Libraries
Great Kills Library and Richmondtown Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 191 major felonies at places in Great Kills-Eltingville.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Great Kills-Eltingville

  • 213 major felonies in 2024
  • 870 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Great Kills-Eltingville, the NYPD recorded another 23 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 3.9 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Great Kills-Eltingville.

Police precincts
122nd (most of the area), 123rd
Major felonies recorded at places in Great Kills-Eltingville, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 97 major felonies at places in Great Kills-Eltingville, against 89 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.