St. George-New Brighton

Neighborhood · Staten Island

St. George and New Brighton occupy the northeastern tip of Staten Island, where the Kill Van Kull meets Upper New York Bay.

  • 0.95 square miles
  • 20,549 residents, 2020 Census
  • 184 street corners
  • 1 Staten Island Railway station
  • 22 bus routes

New Brighton began in 1834 and 1835, when Manhattan developer Thomas E. Davis bought the land and planned a summer retreat, and St. George was named in the 1880s for George Law, who made land available for a new ferry and rail terminal. Since Borough Hall was completed in 1906 the area has served as the island's civic center, home to the Staten Island Ferry terminal, the Staten Island Museum and a historic district of late-19th-century houses designated in 1994.

Sources: St. George, Staten Island (Wikipedia); New Brighton, Staten Island (Wikipedia); St. George Historic District Designation Report (LP-1883, July 19, 1994) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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St. George-New Brighton borders three areas, and Richmond Terrace holds more of its corners than any other street, 16 of 184.

Street map of St. George-New Brighton, Staten Island, outlined among West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills and Snug Harbor, with its one Staten Island Railway station and Jones Woods Park.Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox HillsWest New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes HillSnug Harbor
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  • 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

  • St George lines SIR accessible

Getting around

The Staten Island Railway stops at St George, and buses on 22 routes stop in or at the edge of St. George-New Brighton.

  • 1 Staten Island Railway station
  • 1 listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 22 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S40
  • S42
  • S44
  • S46
  • S48
  • S51
  • S52
  • S61
  • S62
  • S66
  • S74
  • S76
  • S78
  • S81
  • S84
  • S86
  • S90
  • S91
  • S92
  • S94
  • S96
  • S98

Safety record

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

  • 688 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 3.7 a corner, on average
  • 2.2 the average Staten Island corner
  • 45 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 18 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
15
Leading pedestrian intervals
8
Turn calming
1
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
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
  • 8,279 school-zone speed camera tickets at 12 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Lafayette Avenue & Alden Place, 2,909

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 20,549 residents in St. George-New Brighton, about 21,600 per square mile.

  • 8,430 homes, 2020 Census
  • 464 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 2,437 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 70% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Cassidy-Lafayette development lies wholly or partly within St. George-New Brighton, as does one more that NYCHA names by a building's address.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
26.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Jones Woods Park (16.9 acres), Cottages Hill New Brighton Park (2.2 acres) and Mahoney Playground (2.1 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Richmond County Courthouse, the Staten Island Borough Hall, the Christ Church and Parish House (including Cloisters) and the Staten Island Depot Office Building, among others
Historic district
St. George / New Brighton Historic District, wholly or partly within St. George-New Brighton

Streets and trees

Trees
2,684 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
Richmond Terrace, with 16 of the area's 184
Height above sea level
From 7 feet at Bay Street Landing & The Promenade to 232 feet at Franklin Avenue & Arnold Street
Honorary street names
40 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists eight schools and one library in St. George-New Brighton.

Public schools
8
Library
St. George Library Center

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists four works in St. George-New Brighton, among them Major Clarence T. Barrett Memorial (1915), Staten Island War Memorial (1920) and Frank D. Paulo (1985).

  • 4 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 225 major felonies at places in St. George-New Brighton.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in St. George-New Brighton

  • 287 major felonies in 2024 62 fewer in 2025
  • 1,844 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of St. George-New Brighton, the NYPD recorded another 28 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in St. George-New Brighton.

Police precinct
120th
Major felonies recorded at places in St. George-New Brighton, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 91 major felonies at places in St. George-New Brighton, against 109 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.