Neighborhood · Staten Island

Great Kills & Eltingville

Great Kills and Eltingville are neighboring communities on Staten Island's South Shore, with Great Kills Harbor along the southern edge. The area is mainly residential and saw heavy new home construction after the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge opened in 1964. The Staten Island Railway stops at Great Kills (at Giffords Lane) and Eltingville, with express trains to St. George in weekday rush hours. Many express buses to Manhattan end at the Eltingville Transit Center, and Richmond Avenue, Amboy Road and Hylan Boulevard are the main shopping streets. Next door, Great Kills Park, a 523-acre part of Gateway National Recreation Area, has a lifeguarded beach, a multi-use path, fishing areas, a marina and a boat launch.

Great Kills & Eltingville has 2,025 open HPD housing violations, 149 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 689 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 10th most open violations of 17 neighborhoods in Staten Island.

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Open HPD violations

2,025

149 Class C

New violations, last 12 months

689

98 Class C · 9th in Staten Island

How serious are the open violations?

Open HPD violations by class

Class C149 · 7%Class B965 · 48%Class A911 · 45%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 hazardous98Class C · immediately hazardous: 98
Class B · hazardous266Class B · hazardous: 266
Class A · non-hazardous142Class A · non-hazardous: 142

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

Good to know

Staten Island Railway stations: Great Kills and Eltingville
Eltingville Transit Center is a terminal for many Manhattan express bus routes
Great Kills Park (523 acres, Gateway National Recreation Area) has a lifeguarded beach and a marina
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park cemetery, 3201 Amboy Road, was designated a city landmark in 2024
Frederick Law Olmsted House, 4515 Hylan Boulevard, has been a city landmark since 1967

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Re-checked 2026-10-12. Great Kills Park facts now from NPS (523 acres; lifeguarded beach, multi-use path, fishing areas, marina, boat launch). The marina is now Moonbeam Great Kills Marina, so 'Nichols Marina' and the unverified 'sports fields' were removed; the park is its own NTA, so it is described as next door. Station location, rush-hour express trains, transit center, shopping streets and post-1964 growth from Wikipedia. Frederick Douglass Memorial Park (6/18/2024) and Olmsted House (2/28/1967) are LPC landmarks in this NTA per the Individual Landmark Sites dataset; St. Alban's Episcopal Church highlight dropped to keep five.

Sources

Great Kills, Staten Island · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
Eltingville, Staten Island · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
Great Kills Park · National Park Service (accessed October 12, 2026)
Individual Landmark Sites (NYC Open Data) · NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (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.