Neighborhood · Staten Island

Arden Heights & Rossville

Arden Heights and Rossville are on Staten Island's South Shore, with Fresh Kills to the north and the Arthur Kill to the west. Large-scale home building arrived from the 1970s on. Village Greens, opened in 1971 as the city's first planned urban development, has clustered townhouses on looped streets and a 16-acre common park. Rossville has two large condominium developments, Woodbrooke Estates (629 units, built 1981–1987) and Fawn Ridge (521 units, 1987–1990), plus semi-detached homes. There is no Staten Island Railway station; local buses such as the S55, S56, S74 and S84 serve the area, and express buses run to Manhattan. Woodrow United Methodist Church on Woodrow Road, whose congregation dates to 1771, is a city landmark.

Arden Heights & Rossville has 846 open HPD housing violations, 43 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 139 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 15th most open violations of 17 neighborhoods in Staten Island.

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Open HPD violations

846

43 Class C

New violations, last 12 months

139

6 Class C · 16th in Staten Island

How serious are the open violations?

Open HPD violations by class

Class C43 · 5%Class B391 · 46%Class A412 · 49%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months

By class

Class C · immediately hazardous6Class C · immediately hazardous: 6
Class B · hazardous29Class B · hazardous: 29
Class A · non-hazardous21Class A · non-hazardous: 21

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

No Staten Island Railway station; S55, S56, S74 and S84 local buses
Village Greens (opened 1971) has clustered townhomes and a 16-acre common park
Woodbrooke Estates (629 units) and Fawn Ridge (521 units) condominiums in Rossville
Woodrow United Methodist Church, 1075 Woodrow Road, has been a city landmark since 1967

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Re-checked 2026-10-12. Removed Sandy Ground and the Rossville AME Zion Church: the LPC Individual Landmark Sites dataset puts those landmarks in the Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow NTA. The only LPC landmark in this NTA is Woodrow United Methodist Church (designated 11/15/1967); 1771 congregation from Wikipedia Woodrow. No SIR station falls inside this NTA (MTA station coordinates checked against NTA polygons). Village Greens (1971, 16-acre park), bus routes from Wikipedia Arden Heights; Woodbrooke Estates (629 units, 1981-87), Fawn Ridge (521 units, 1987-90), semi-detached homes and post-1976 building boom from Wikipedia Rossville.

Sources

Arden Heights, Staten Island · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
Rossville, Staten Island · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
Woodrow, Staten Island · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
Individual Landmark Sites (NYC Open Data) · NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (accessed October 12, 2026)
MTA Subway Stations (data.ny.gov) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)

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“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.