Pleasant Plains, Staten Island

Situated on the island's South Shore, Pleasant Plains has a population of 5,000 according to the 2000 census.

Eventually, the name "Pleasant Plains" was applied to the community which soon sprung up around the station.

In 1882, a 120-acre (0.49 km2) farm southeast of the railroad station was purchased from the Bennett family by the Reverend John Christopher Drumgoole, founder of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin.

The formal name became The Mission of The Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto but was and still is referred to solely as "Mt.

The park named, "The Mount Loretto Unique Area" is maintained by the New York State Dept.

The Pleasant Plains' portion includes a fishing pier at the foot of Sharrotts Ave.

high red clay bluffs overlooking Prince’s Bay, part Outer New York Harbor, they are part of the terminal moraine the southern terminus of the Wisconsin Glacier which receded 10,000 yrs.

In 2004 a 12-acre (49,000 m2) tract at the northeastern corner of the mission's property, which had been the site of a convent maintained by the Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, a Franciscan order of nuns, was sold to residential developers for US$19 million, despite steadfast opposition from local conservation activists.

Pleasant Plains is served by the Staten Island Railway station of the same name near Amboy Road/Bloomingdale Road.