All about the Staten Island Neighborhood Clifton:
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, Clifton. This neighborhood is home to the North Shore and to the zip code 10304. Clifton is a more established coastal community that faces Upper New York Bay on the east. Stapleton, Rosebank, Concord, and Van Duzer Street from its northern, southern, western, and southwest boundaries, respectively.
When a town by that name, bigger in area than the current neighborhood, was planned along the shoreline in 1817, the region was given the name "Clifton." The Vanderbilt family held a large portion of the surrounding property in the early days. At the base of the current Vanderbilt Avenue, Cornelius Vanderbilt started a boat service from the shoreline to Manhattan when he was a young man. The initial offices of the National Institutes of Health were located in Bayley Seton Hospital, which was formerly the United States Public Health Service Hospital, north of Vanderbilt Avenue.
Staten Island was still largely agricultural in the 1880s. For instance, the Frenchman called Paul Chaulmier who had 438 goats that were pastured near the "village of Clifton,” he sold goat's milk to affluent New Yorkers.
The location of the Park Hill Apartments was entirely covered by the Fox Hills Golf Club in 1900. On Vanderbilt Avenue, a sizable lodge was present. Up until its closure in 1935, many competitions were hosted there. During World War II, the government took control of the property and built military facilities there. It transformed into a middle-class, multiethnic village of government servants by the 1950s, including firefighters, teachers, and physicians. After the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in the 1960s, many residents of the other districts of New York City relocated to the Park Hill Apartments, which are now situated on Vanderbilt Avenue and Park Hill Avenue. The emerging middle-class population that Staten Island originally drew, however, was lost as people discovered that it was comparatively inexpensive to relocate there and buy a house or rent an apartment in smaller buildings by the late 1960s.
Clifton is served by many local buses around the surrounding streets. S74 and S84 along Targee Street and Van Duzer Street. S51 and S81 are along Bay Street while S52 and S78 move along Tompkins Street. As well as S76 and S86 along Vanderbilt Avenue. The SIM30 is the express bus which goes to Manhattan. Aside from the local and express buses, the Clifton station for the Staten Island Railway is only three stops from the Staten Island Ferry at St. George. The neighborhood also is served by the elementary school P.S. 57 and the intermediate school I.S 49. The public education system in the area contributes significantly to environmental protection, including park upkeep, lake maintenance, and trash collection. The present PS 57 pupils recently completed the restoration of Eibs Pond, which is a portion of a 17-acre wetland next to the Park Hill neighborhood.
As you may see, Staten Island exudes so much history that is still honored throughout our neighborhoods. Clifton is home to many people from Staten Island. The neighborhood is covered in every corner with many food spots, transportation, parks and schools. Clifton as of recently has had more “Stop” and “Yield” signs put in place to help the safety of this neighborhood. This neighborhood is worth learning more about and living in.
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