Old Place, Staten Island

Old Place is a neighborhood located in the northwestern section of Staten Island. The neighborhood is located south of Arlington, and west of Mariners Harbor. It is part of Community Board 1.

Features

The neighborhood has a United Artists movie theater along Forest Avenue, and a Home Depot across the street. There are a few homes along Forest Avenue, but other than that, the only other residential units are the Goethals Homes, located along Goethals Road North just west of Forest Avenue.

There are plans in the future to develop the area with 3-4 story buildings with retail on the ground floor and residential units on the upper floors, with access to the surrounding wetlands.

Demographics

As of the 2010 census, the demographics of Old Place were roughly as follows:

50.4% White, 5.4% Black, 38.5% Hispanic, 3.3% Asian, 2.4% Other.^[1]

This is defining Old Place as everything within the boundaries of Census Tract 323 south of the railroad tracks.

Transportation

Old Place is served by the S40 bus and its rush-hour-only limited-stop counterpart, the S90 bus.^[2]

References

↑ http://s899.photobucket.com/albums/ac191/ajedrez1/Demographic%20Charts/?action=view&current=OldPlace.jpg
↑ "Staten Island Bus Map January 2013" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. January 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2013.

Neighborhoods in the New York City Borough of Staten Island

Annadale Arden Heights Arlington Arrochar Bay Terrace Bloomfield Brighton Heights Bulls Head Castleton Castleton Corners Charleston Clifton Concord Dongan Hills East Shore Egbertville Elm Park Eltingville Emerson Hill Fort Wadsworth Graniteville Grant City Grasmere Great Kills Greenridge Grymes Hill Hamilton Park Heartland Village Huguenot Lighthouse Hill Livingston Manor Heights Mariners Harbor Meiers Corners Mid-Island Midland Beach New Brighton New Dorp New Springville North Shore Oakwood Old Place Old Town Pleasant Plains Port Ivory Port Richmond Prince's Bay Randall Manor Richmondtown Richmond Valley Rosebank Rossville Sailors' Snug Harbor Saint George Sandy Ground Shore Acres Silver Lake South Beach South Shore Stapleton Stapleton Heights Sunnyside Teleport Todt Hill Tompkinsville Tottenville Tottenville Beach Travis-Chelsea Ward Hill Westerleigh West New Brighton West Shore Willowbrook Woodrow

Community Boards: 1 2 3

Coordinates: 40°37′37″N 74°10′23″W / 40.627°N 74.173°W / 40.627; -74.173

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