Port Richmond

Neighborhood · Staten Island

Port Richmond fronts the Kill Van Kull on Staten Island's North Shore and also takes in neighboring Elm Park, named for the elm trees on a doctor's estate.

  • 1.30 square miles
  • 22,609 residents, 2020 Census
  • 260 street corners
  • 18 bus routes

The community grew around a ferry to Bergen Point, now in Bayonne, New Jersey; by 1757 the crossing was a key link on the route between New York and Philadelphia. The Reformed Church on Staten Island, whose congregation dates to 1664, finished its Greek Revival church in 1844 beside the oldest non-private cemetery on the island. When the Staten Island Railway added a stop in the 1880s, the village was already one of the island's main shopping areas.

Sources: Reformed Church on Staten Island, Sunday School Building, and Cemetery Designation Report (LP-2384, March 23, 2010) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Port Richmond, Staten Island (Wikipedia); Elm Park, Staten Island (Wikipedia).

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Port Richmond borders three areas, and Port Richmond Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 35 of 260.

Street map of Port Richmond, Staten Island, outlined among Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill and Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville, with CPL. Thompson Park.West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes HillWesterleigh-Castleton CornersMariner's Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville
  • Port Richmond
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 18 routes stop in or at the edge of Port Richmond.

  • 14 local bus routes
  • 4 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S40
  • S44
  • S46
  • S48
  • S53
  • S54
  • S57
  • S59
  • S66
  • S89
  • S90
  • S94
  • S96
  • S98

Express bus routes

  • SIM3
  • SIM3C
  • SIM30
  • SIM35

Safety record

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

  • 884 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 3.4 a corner, on average
  • 2.2 the average Staten Island corner
  • 51 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 32 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
30
Leading pedestrian intervals
20
Turn calming
3
Safety Improvement Projects
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
  • 15,349 school-zone speed camera tickets at 16 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Trantor Place & Dixon Avenue, 4,252

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 22,609 residents in Port Richmond, about 17,400 per square mile.

  • 7,391 homes, 2020 Census
  • 320 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,060 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 69% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
21.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
CPL. Thompson Park (10.8 acres), Faber Pool and Park (4.3 acres) and Heritage Park (3.9 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Northfield Township District School 6; the New York Public Library's Port Richmond Branch; and the Reformed Church on Staten Island, Sunday School Bldg, & Cemetery

Streets and trees

Trees
2,687 in NYC Parks' records, most often Japanese flowering cherry, Callery pear and red maple
Street with the most corners
Port Richmond Avenue, with 35 of the area's 260
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at Richmond Terrace & Nicholas Avenue to 68 feet at Forest Avenue & Raymond Place
Honorary street names
27 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists ten schools and one library in Port Richmond.

Public schools
6
Charter and private schools
4
Library
Port Richmond Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works in Port Richmond: Eugene G. Putnam (1915), Egbert Memorial (1958) and Sundial (1994).

  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 204 major felonies at places in Port Richmond.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Port Richmond

  • 252 major felonies in 2024 48 fewer in 2025
  • 1,245 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Port Richmond, the NYPD recorded another 89 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 13.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Port Richmond.

Map of Port Richmond: 5 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Port Richmond, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Port Richmond, most about 1,250 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Port Richmond are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Port Richmond and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
121st (most of the area), 120th
Major felonies recorded at places in Port Richmond, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 89 major felonies at places in Port Richmond, against 85 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.