Greenridge, Staten Island

Greenridge or Marshland is a name sometimes used to denote the western part of Eltingville, a neighborhood on Staten Island's South Shore.

In 1921, a highly popular restaurant and amusement place resembling today's Chuck E. Cheese's opened at the northwest corner of Arthur Kill Road and Richmond Avenue.

Known as Al Deppe's,[1] it was forced out of business in the late 1960s when its property was condemned to make way for the proposed Richmond Parkway.

However, due to intense opposition — much of it from environmental activists — the parkway section that would have passed over Deppe's location was never built.

Many passengers wait there each weekday morning for express buses that take them to their jobs in downtown or Midtown Manhattan.