East Shore, Staten Island

Precise parameters vary, but the most commonly used definition of the East Shore is that it stretches from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and the Staten Island Expressway, or some line slightly south of this, on the north, to the southern property lines of the Staten Island Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area (formerly known as Great Kills Park) and United Hebrew Cemetery on the south, and from the Lower New York Bay on the east to the western boundaries of ZIP Codes 10304, 10305 and 10306, on the west.

The opening of the bridge brought a wave of transplants from Brooklyn, especially from neighborhoods such as Flatbush, which many white (especially Italian-American) families sought to leave because African-Americans were relocating there from the Southern States.

This factor has contributed to the East Shore becoming the most politically conservative locality on Staten Island, and for that matter, in all of New York City.

Points of interest located on the East Shore include Historic Richmond Town, the nearby Tibetan Museum on Lighthouse Hill, Moravian Cemetery (where members of the Vanderbilt family are buried) and a significant portion of the Staten Island Greenbelt.

It would run along the Narrows and Lower New York Bay between Fort Wadsworth at the north and Great Kills Park to the south.