Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights

Neighborhood · Staten Island

Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights covers a cluster of Staten Island hills north of Richmondtown, including Todt Hill, Emerson Hill, Lighthouse Hill, Manor Heights, Egbertville and part of Willowbrook.

  • 6.68 square miles
  • 32,822 residents, 2020 Census
  • 633 street corners
  • 24 bus routes

Todt Hill, about 401 feet high, is the highest natural point in New York City, and much of it lies within the Staten Island Greenbelt. Emerson Hill is named for Judge William Emerson, whose family lived there in the 1840s, and Lighthouse Hill for the yellow-brick range light completed in 1912 to guide ships into New York Harbor. Lighthouse Hill is also home to the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, housed in Himalayan-style buildings.

Sources: Staten Island Lighthouse Designation Report (LP-0367, January 17, 1968) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Todt Hill (Wikipedia); Emerson Hill, Staten Island (Wikipedia); Lighthouse Hill, Staten Island (Wikipedia).

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Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights borders eight areas, and Richmond Road holds more of its corners than any other street, 51 of 633.

Street map of Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, Staten Island, outlined among New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis, Westerleigh-Castleton Corners, Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills and Great Kills-Eltingville, with LaTourette Park & Golf Course.Westerleigh-Castleton CornersWest New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes HillGrasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan HillsNew Dorp-Midland BeachOakwood-RichmondtownGreat Kills-EltingvilleFreshkills Park (North)New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis
  • Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 24 routes stop in or at the edge of Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights.

  • 16 local bus routes
  • 8 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • S51
  • S53
  • S54
  • S55
  • S56
  • S57
  • S59
  • S61
  • S66
  • S74
  • S76
  • S78
  • S84
  • S86
  • S91
  • S93

Express bus routes

  • SIM4
  • SIM4C
  • SIM8
  • SIM15
  • SIM31
  • SIM32
  • SIM33
  • SIM33C

Safety record

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

  • 1,264 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.0 a corner, on average
  • 2.2 the average Staten Island corner
  • 324 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 47 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
43
Leading pedestrian intervals
16
Safety Improvement Projects
3
Turn calming
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.

  • 5,957 red-light camera tickets at four corners
  • 31,326 school-zone speed camera tickets at 21 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Arthur Kill Road & Giffords Lane, 3,095

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 32,822 residents in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, about 4,900 per square mile.

  • 11,293 homes, 2020 Census
  • 414 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 7,975 residential lots hold buildings from 1970 or earlier, and 10% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Todt Hill development lies wholly or partly within Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
1373.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
LaTourette Park & Golf Course (757.9 acres), Brookfield Park (258.7 acres) and Blood Root Valley (161.3 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Ernet Flagg House, Expanded Site; the Eltingville Store; the Stone Court; and the Ernest Flagg House, Expanded Site, among others
Historic district
New York City Farm Colony- Seaview Hospital Historic District, wholly or partly within Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights

Streets and trees

Trees
7,820 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Callery pear and sweetgum
Street with the most corners
Richmond Road, with 51 of the area's 633
Height above sea level
From 9 feet at Arthur Kill Road & Abingdon Avenue to 396 feet at Ocean Terrace & Elmhurst Avenue
Honorary street names
24 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists ten schools and one library in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
5
Library
Dongan Hills Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights: Gretta Moulton Gate (1995).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 167 major felonies at places in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights

  • 131 major felonies in 2024
  • 627 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, the NYPD recorded another 44 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 6.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights.

Police precincts
122nd (most of the area), 121st
Major felonies recorded at places in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 75 major felonies at places in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, against 84 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.