Neighborhood · Staten Island

Grasmere, Arrochar, South Beach & Dongan Hills

This area is on Staten Island's East Shore, south of the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge along Lower New York Bay. Dongan Hills was one of the first parts of the island to see a post-war building boom, with many small one-family homes built in the 1950s. NYCHA has two developments here, both completed in 1950: the General Berry Houses in Dongan Hills (506 apartments) and the South Beach Houses (422 apartments). The Staten Island Railway stops at Grasmere, Old Town and Dongan Hills, and Father Capodanno Boulevard and Hylan Boulevard carry local and express buses. The South Beach–Franklin Delano Roosevelt Boardwalk, opened in 1937, runs along the beach. Brady's Pond is private, owned by the Cameron Club; Brady's Pond Preserve at its northwest corner is public.

Grasmere, Arrochar, South Beach & Dongan Hills has 3,582 open HPD housing violations, 403 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,086 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 8th most open violations of 17 neighborhoods in Staten Island.