Bloomfield, Staten Island

Throughout the 20th century, very few people actually resided in Bloomfield, much of its land being used by construction companies to store heavy equipment, such as cement mixers.

A large oil storage terminal maintained by Gulf Oil could also once be found there, leading to one of the service roads of the West Shore Expressway receiving the name of Gulf Avenue; the 440 acres (178 ha) terminal (built in 1936), which housed 82 tanks having a total capacity of 215 million US gallons (814,000 cubic metres (28,700,000 cu ft)), was closed in 1998, and the tanks have since been demolished.

Commercial, but not residential, development accelerated rapidly in the late 1980s, when several large office buildings were constructed On February 10, 1973, during a cleaning operation, 42 workers were inside one of the TETCo natural gas tanks which had supposedly been completely drained ten months earlier.

In Fall of 2018 the Matrix Global Logistics Park opened in Bloomfield, a distribution center for companies such as Amazon and Ikea, bringing more than 2,000 jobs and development to the area.

But the area has yet to witness the kind of new-home construction that has been encountered virtually everywhere else on Staten Island since the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964.