Neighborhood · Staten Island

West New Brighton, Silver Lake & Grymes Hill

This North Shore area stretches from West New Brighton near the Kill Van Kull south to Silver Lake and the slopes of Grymes Hill. Grymes Hill rises 374 feet, the second-highest natural point in the five boroughs, and is home to Wagner College, with many 1920s private homes overlooking the harbor plus garden apartments along Howard Avenue and Arlo Road built in the late 1940s. West New Brighton includes the post-war West Brighton Houses public housing development, and Silver Lake has several large privately owned apartment buildings. There is no rail station; local buses such as the S40, S44, S46, S48 and S53 and the SIM30 express serve the area. Silver Lake Park has an 18-hole public golf course and a lake that was a drinking-water reservoir until 1971, and Clove Lakes Park lies along the area's edge.

West New Brighton, Silver Lake & Grymes Hill has 7,740 open HPD housing violations, 997 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,981 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 5th most open violations of 17 neighborhoods in Staten Island.