Arrochar, Staten Island
Arrochar is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City, United States.
Arrochar is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City, United States. It is located directly inland of Fort Wadsworth and South Beach, on the east side of Hylan Boulevard south of the Staten Island Expressway; the community of Grasmere borders it on the west. It is today primarily a neighborhood of one- and two-family homes and small businesses.
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Worth seeing in and around Arrochar, Staten Island
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows.
2.4 km · bridge in New York City · Wikipedia - 02Bayonne Bridge
The Bayonne Bridge is a steel through arch bridge that spans the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island, New York, and Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. It carries New York State Route 440 and New Jersey Route 440, with the two roads connecting at the state border at the river’s center.
7.6 km · arch bridge connecting Staten Island, NY with Bayonne, NJ · Wikipedia - 03To the Struggle Against World Terrorism
To the Struggle Against World Terrorism is a 10–story sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given to the United States as an official gift from the Russian government as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It stands at the end of the former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey.
7.2 km · sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli · Wikipedia - 04Todt Hill
Todt Hill is a 401-foot-tall hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York. It is the highest natural point in the five boroughs of New York City and the highest elevation on the entire Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod.
3.4 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 05Luna Park
Luna Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1903 to 1944. The park was located on a site bounded by Surf Avenue to the south, West 8th Street to the east, Neptune Avenue to the north, and West 12th Street to the west.
8.2 km · 1903 Coney Island amusement park · Wikipedia - 06Staten Island Museum
Staten Island Museum is Staten Island’s oldest cultural institution, and the only remaining general interest museum in New York City. Founded in 1881 by fourteen of New York City’s first “environmental activists”, the Staten Island Museum houses artifacts and specimens from ancient to contemporary periods.
5.1 km · museum in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia - 07Gowanus Canal
The Gowanus Canal is a 1.8-mile-long canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the westernmost portion of Long Island. Once a vital cargo transportation hub, the canal has seen decreasing use since the mid-20th century as domestic shipping declined.
9.6 km · canal in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arrochar, Staten Island
- Airports
- Newark Liberty (EWR), 13 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 25 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 26 km
- Stations
- New York Harbor, 8 km · Port of New York and New Jersey, 8 km · Bay 50th Street, 7.5 km · 25th Avenue, 7.2 km · 86th Street, 4.5 km
- Philadelphia → Arrochar, Staten Island117 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · $11–15
- Hartford → Arrochar, Staten Island174 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · $16–22
- Albany → Arrochar, Staten Island230 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · $21–29
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No local-transport research exists yet for Arrochar, Staten Island
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arrochar, Staten Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inNY Waterway operates four ferry routes connecting Jersey City to Manhattan.
- Get inThe other two ferry routes leave from Exchange Place, and connect to World Financial Center and West 39th Street in Midtown.
- Get aroundThe Via fleet of minivans and SUVs holds multiple passengers and offers wheelchair accessible rides.
- Get aroundOff road shared use trails can be found along the Hudson River waterfront and in Liberty State Park.
- Get aroundThe East Coast Greenway, a bike path that runs from Maine to Florida, cuts through Jersey City from Newark, eastward through Lincoln Park and city streets, to the ferries and to the riverfront walkway running north.
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Next door to Arrochar, Staten Island
Arrochar, Staten Island is 7 km from Staten Island, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Staten Islandborough of New York City, New York, United States of America7 km
- Coney Islandcoastal neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA8 km
- Brighton Beachneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States9.6 km
- The Narrowsstrait in New York City, USA2.6 km
- Bensonhurstneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States6 km
- Borough Parkneighborhood in New York City7.7 km