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Grant City, Staten Island

Grant City is a neighborhood located on the East Shore of Staten Island, New York City.

Grant City, Staten Island
Grant City, Staten Island · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Grant City is a neighborhood located on the East Shore of Staten Island, New York City.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grant City, Staten Island

10 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.

  1. 01
    Verrazzano-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.

    6.1 km · bridge in New York City · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bayonne 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
  3. 03
    Fresh Kills Landfill

    The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres in the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.

    6.7 km · landfill site · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    To 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.

    10 km · sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Todt 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.

    2.6 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Staten 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.

    7.7 km · museum in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Wagner College

    Wagner College is a private college in Staten Island, New York, United States. It was established in 1883 and, as of the 2023–2024 academic year, it enrolled approximately 1,932 students, including 1,592 undergraduates and 340 graduates.

    4.1 km · private college in Staten Island, New York, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Staten Island Zoo

    The Staten Island Zoo is an 8-acre urban zoo in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City. The zoo is open year-round except on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

    5.1 km · suburban zoo in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Postcards

    Postcards is an outdoor sculpture in St. George, Staten Island, New York City, United States.

    8 km · memorial (sculpture) · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Saint George Terminal

    St. George Terminal (also known as St.

    7.7 km · ferry, railway, bus, and park and ride transit center in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Grant City, Staten Island

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 13 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 29 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 30 km
Stations
86th Street, 8.3 km · 18th Avenue, 9.5 km · Bay Parkway, 10 km · 20th Avenue, 9.7 km · Bay Ridge – 95th Street, 7.6 km
  • Philadelphia → Grant City, Staten Island
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · $10–14
  • Hartford → Grant City, Staten Island
    177 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · $16–23
  • Albany → Grant City, Staten Island
    232 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · $21–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grant City, 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 Grant City, Staten Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHowever, there are plans to develop a ferry system that will transport passengers to and from Elizabeth to New York.

From Wikivoyage: Elizabeth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    580 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,625 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,630 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,756 km

If you know how people move in Grant City, Staten Island – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Grant City, Staten Island

Grant City, Staten Island is 3 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 America3.4 km
  • The Narrowsstrait in New York City, USA6.3 km
  • Bensonhurstneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States9.4 km
  • Sea Gategated community in Brooklyn, New York City, United States of America8.5 km
  • Arthur Killtidal strait and a kill separating Staten Island, New York City from mainland New Jersey8.4 km
  • Bay Ridgeneighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States8.9 km