St. George
Neighborhood Intelligence

St. George is the civic and transportation center of Staten Island, set on the northeastern waterfront where the Staten Island Ferry docks. The St. George Terminal is the Staten Island end of the ferry to Lower Manhattan. The neighborhood is bordered by Tompkinsville to the south and New Brighton to the west, and the official area covered here, NYC Planning's St. George-New Brighton, runs along the Kill Van Kull waterfront on Richmond Terrace. Its hillside streets climb from the harbor to blocks of older houses just above the borough's government buildings.

Staten Island Borough Hall, the Richmond County courthouses on Richmond Terrace and Central Avenue, and the Saint George Library Center make up the borough's civic cluster. The St. George Theatre on Hyatt Street is a restored vaudeville and movie palace. The National Lighthouse Museum occupies part of the former U.S. Light-House Depot at Lighthouse Point, whose waterfront promenade looks across the harbor to Lower Manhattan, and the Postcards memorial on the waterfront honors Staten Islanders lost on September 11.