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Rossville, Staten Island

Rossville is a neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, on the island's South Shore.

Rossville, Staten Island
Rossville, Staten Island · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Rossville is a neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, on the island's South Shore. It is located to the north of Woodrow, to the west of Arden Heights, and to the south and east of the Arthur Kill. Rossville is located within Staten Island Community Board 3.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rossville, 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
    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.

    4.7 km · landfill site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    New York's 11th congressional district

    New York's 11th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City. The 11th district includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, including the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights, south western Gravesend, western Sheepshead Bay, and parts of southern Bensonhurst.

    8.2 km · U.S. House district in Staten Island, NY · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Freshkills Park

    Freshkills Park is a public park being built atop a former landfill on Staten Island. At about 2,200 acres, it will be the largest park developed in New York City since the 19th century.

    5 km · park on Staten Island · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve

    Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve is 265-acre state park located near the southwestern shore of Staten Island, New York. It is the only state park located on Staten Island.

    1.6 km · state park in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Great Kills Park

    Great Kills Park is a public park in Great Kills, Staten Island, New York City. Originally named Marine Park, it is a part of the Staten Island unit of Gateway National Recreation Area.

    7.8 km · public park in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Outerbridge Crossing

    The Outerbridge Crossing, also known as the Outerbridge, is a cantilever bridge that spans the Arthur Kill between Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York, 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.

    3.1 km · bridge between New Jersey and New York · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    New Dorp Light

    The New Dorp Lighthouse is a decommissioned lighthouse located in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York City. Funds for the lighthouse were approved by United States Congress on August 31, 1852 and the structure was completed in 1856.

    9.3 km · lighthouse in New York, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Staten Island Light

    The Staten Island Range Light, also known as the Ambrose Channel Range Light, is a lighthouse on Richmond Hill in Staten Island, New York, United States. It is the rear range light companion to the West Bank Lighthouse.

    7.5 km · lighthouse in New York, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Princes Bay Light

    The Prince's Bay Light is an active lighthouse on the highest point of the southern shoreline of Staten Island, New York, in the Pleasant Plains neighborhood. It is situated on an 85-foot bluff overlooking Raritan Bay with an attached brownstone cottage which served as the lightkeeper's house.

    3.7 km · lighthouse in New York, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Conference House Park

    Conference House Park is a park in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York City. The park is located along the Arthur Kill coast where the kill opens into Raritan Bay.

    5.2 km · park in the United States of America · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Rossville, Staten Island

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 17 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 39 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 39 km
Stations
Linden Airport, 8.8 km · Bay Terrace, 7 km · Great Kills, 5.7 km · Oakwood Heights, 8.1 km · Huguenot, 2.3 km
  • Philadelphia → Rossville, Staten Island
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · $10–13
  • Hartford → Rossville, Staten Island
    186 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · $18–24
  • Albany → Rossville, Staten Island
    237 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · $21–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rossville, 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 Rossville, 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 inNY Waterway offers ferry service from NYC to Belford, NJ and other destinations on the Jersey shore.

From Wikivoyage: Keansburg, 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

    91 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    590 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,624 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

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Around it

Next door to Rossville, Staten Island

Rossville, 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 America6.8 km
  • Aveneltown in New Jersey, United States7 km
  • Iselinunincorporated community in New Jersey, United States9.3 km
  • Arthur Killtidal strait and a kill separating Staten Island, New York City from mainland New Jersey5 km
  • Keasbeyhuman settlement in New Jersey, United States of America7.9 km
  • Menlo Park Terracehuman settlement in New Jersey, United States of America9.1 km