All about the Staten Island Neighborhood Arden Heights:
Staten Island is broken down into 14 different zip codes from 10301 to 10314 and into 67 different neighborhoods. Throughout this series of blogs, we will be discussing each and every neighborhood on Staten Island as well as breaking down the history, what stands there today and transportation and what community district it falls into. Staten Island is broken up into three different community districts which are: North Shore, Mid-Island, and South Shore.
Today we will be breaking down all the history about the Staten Island neighborhood, Arden Heights. This neighborhood is home to the South Shore and the zip codes 10309 and 10312. The western portion of Annadale, a Staten Island, New York, USA community, is commonly referred to as Arden Heights. The majority of New York City maps, including Hagstrom's, have “Arden Heights” listed as a location. Arden Heights is bounded to the east by Annadale, to the south by Huguenot, to the west by the Arthur Kill, and to the north by the Fresh Kills. The name “Arden Heights” was first used in 1886 by renowned Staten Island real estate entrepreneur Erastus Wiman; it is most likely a reference to the elevation that presently towers over the Village Greens retail complex and apartment development.
Arden Heights, long known as the location of the Roman Catholic orphanage St. Michael's Home For Children experienced a significant change in 1971 when the mentioned Village Greens, New York City's first planned urban development, opened there. Mayor John V. Lindsay, who proudly declared in the late 1960s that journey time from the Greens to Lower Manhattan will generally take one hour and fifteen minutes, laid the foundation stone for the project. The Saint Michael's orphanage, which was located off Arthur Kill Road, was shut down in 1982. Some of the property it occupied was sold to developers, and the remaining portion was put aside for a chapel that bears St. John Neumann's name. On the east side of the property, the church also maintains a convent for the Presentation Sisters; in 2005, a portion of this land was sold off, and new home construction was to follow here as well. This is yet another indication of Staten Island's ongoing housing boom, which has continued essentially undoubtedly since the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964.
Village Greens also has a 16-acre common park and most astonishingly, two Olympic-sized swimming pools; all were maintained through Village Greens Homeowners Association's relatively low charges. A shopping center and a New York City public elementary school were simultaneously developed to serve the residents of Village Greens. The building is now the focal point of a neighborhood with a distinct identity from Annadale. The numerous single-family homes that have since been constructed around it, giving Arden Heights more in common with Mid-Island communities like Willowbrook than with Annadale and other South Shore neighborhoods.
Arden Heights is served S74 and S84 along Arthur Kill Road as well as S56 that runs along Arden Heights and Arthur Kill Road. Also served by SIM2, SIM23, SIM22, and SIM8 express buses. Arden Heights and other communities are served by the Huguenot Park Branch of the New York Public Library, which is located at 830 Huguenot Avenue and Drumgoole Road East. It was opened in January 1985. This neighborhood also has a plenty of schools for all ages ranging from I.S. 75 and so many more.
As you may see, Staten Island exudes so much history that is still honored throughout our neighborhoods. Arden Heights is home to many people from Staten Island. The neighborhood is covered in every corner with many food spots, transportation, parks and schools. This neighborhood is worth learning more about and living in. Tom Crimmins Realty, LTD. currently has one listing in the neighborhood Arden Heights: 107 Jamie Lane, Staten Island, NY 10312 which is a residential home.
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