Great Kills
Great Kills is a neighborhood within the borough of Staten Island in New York City. It is located on the island's South Shore, and according to many local geographers, it is the South Shore's northernmost community.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood with 22,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Staten Island, New York
- Also known as: “Clarendon”, “Gifford’s”, “Giffords”, “Great Kills, Staten Island”, “Greatkills”, and “Newtown”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Kills station and Bay Terrace station.
Great Kills station
Metro station
Photo: AEMoreira042281, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Kills station is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Great Kills, Staten Island, New York. It is located on an open cut west of Giffords Lane and Amboy Road on the main line.
Bay Terrace station
Metro station
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
The Bay Terrace station is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Bay Terrace, Staten Island, New York.
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park
Cemetery
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is a historic cemetery at 3201 Amboy Road in the Oakwood Heights neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. The cemetery corporation was formed in 1933, and the first interments took place in 1935.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bay Terrace and Greenridge.
Bay Terrace
Neighborhood
Bay Terrace is a neighborhood, centered around the street of the same name, on the East Shore of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City.
Greenridge
Neighborhood
Greenridge or Marshland is a name sometimes used to denote the western part of Eltingville, a neighborhood on Staten Island's South Shore. The area's earliest settlers were French Huguenots, who are also responsible for a nearby South Shore neighborhood being named Huguenot.
Great Kills
- Category: locality
- Location: Staten Island, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.55427° or 40° 33′ 15″ northLongitude
-74.15153° or 74° 9′ 6″ westPopulation
22,000Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
87G7HR3X+P9OpenStreetMap ID
node 158808525OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5119211Wikidata ID
Q5599388
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Great Kills” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Great Kills”
- French: “Great Kills”
- German: “Great Kills”
- Spanish: “Great Kills”
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Notable Places Nearby
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