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Encyclopedia > Arden Heights, Staten Island

Arden Heights is a name increasingly applied to the western part of Annadale, a neighborhood located on the South Shore of Staten Island, New York, USA. The name "Arden Heights" is found on most maps of New York City, including Hagstrom's. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Annadale is a neighborhood or section of Staten Island, New York, USA, situated on the islands South Shore. ... The South Shore is a geographical term applied to the area of Staten Island, New York, USA south and east of the islands ridge of hills (and Richmond Creek and Fresh Kills south of Historic Richmond Town) along the waterfront and adjacent areas from the Narrows to the mouth... For other uses, see Staten Island (disambiguation) Staten Island, shown in an enhanced satellite image Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located on an island of the same name on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor. ...


Erastus Wiman, a noted Staten Island real estate developer, coined the name "Arden Heights" in 1886; the neighborhood's name probably refers to the hill that currently looms above the Village Greens shopping center and housing development. (The moniker likely does NOT refer to the now-shuttered Fresh Kills Landfill, at the western end of Arden Avenue. The landfill did not exist until the mid-20th Century.) Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, New York, was the formerly the largest landfill in the world and the principal landfill of New York City in the later 20th century. ...


Long noted for being the site of St. Michael's Home For Children, a Roman Catholic orphanage, Arden Heights underwent a serious transformation when the aforementioned Village Greens, New York City's first planned urban development (or PUD), opened there in 1971. Ground was broken for the project by Mayor John V. Lindsay, who in the late 1960s proudly announced that travel time from the Greens to Lower Manhattan would average one hour 15 minutes -- just about the same when taking a bus in 2006. Guido Renis archangel Michael (in the Capuchin church of Sta. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... An orphanage (historically an orphans asylum before the latter word took on its modern insane asylum connotation) is an institution dedicated to caring for orphans (children who have lost their parents) and abused, abandoned, and neglected children. ... Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921–December 19, 2000) was an American politician who served as a Congressman (1959-1966) and mayor of New York City (1966-1973). ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Woolworth Building, looking south along Broadway Lower Manhattan, from the Brooklyn Bridge, 2005 Rigid airship the USS Akron over Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...


The Greens feature clustered townhomes built around looped streets -- one way in, one way out. Off of the main thoroughfares of Arden Avenue and Arthur Kill Road, these streets -- Hampton Green, Forest Green, Dover Green and Carlyle Green -- provides a relatively traffic-free environment and ample parking, making Village Greens a unique place to live in an otherwise overdeveloped Staten Island. (Some Greens feature detached homes, which naturally fetch a higher market price than the townhomes, which are often clustered eight apiece.)


Other "Greens" -- namely Rolling Hill Green -- were built on land intended for the Village Greens but, for reasons unknown (some conjecture that the developers ran out of cash and construction workers) were never built.


About a mile north of the "Greens" is the Aspen Knolls development, located off of Arthur Kill Road, next to the St. John Neumann Church. Originally intended as housing for naval personnel the be based in Stapleton, when this project was cancelled in 1994, the developer opted to market the one, two, and three bedroom homes to the public. The complex includes playing fields and a community center. Aspen Knolls is one of the largest housing developments in Staten Island, New York. ... Saint John Nepomucene Neumann (German: ; Czech: ; March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860) was a Bishop of Philadelphia (1852-60) and the first American bishop to be canonized. ... Stapleton is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City in the United States. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...


A shopping center was simultaneously developed to serve the residents of Village Greens, as well as a New York City public elementary school; the Greens also features a 16-acre common park, featuring expanses of green grass, trees and -- most astonishingly -- two Olympic-sized swimming pools. Today, the project stands at the center of a community bearing its own identity, separate from that of Annadale. The New York City Department of Education is a department of the city of New York which runs almost all of the citys public schools. ... Annadale is a neighborhood or section of Staten Island, New York, USA, situated on the islands South Shore. ...


A large percentage of the residents of the condominium — and the many single-family homes that have since been built around it — are Jewish and Italian, giving Arden Heights more common ground with such Mid-Island neighborhoods as Willowbrook than with Annadale and other South Shore communities. A Jewish American (also commonly American Jew) is an American (a citizen of the United States) of Jewish descent who maintains a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. ... The term Mid-Island is frequently applied to a series of neighborhoods within New York City, USAs borough of Staten Island. ... Willowbrook is a neighborhood on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of the USAs largest city, New York. ...


In 1982 the orphanage, situated off of Arthur Kill Road, closed, with some of the land on which it stood being sold to developers (who have since built the Aspen Knolls development) and the remainder set aside for use as a church, named for the recently-canonized St. John Neumann. The church also maintains a convent for the Presentation Sisters on the east side of the property; in 2005 a section of this land was sold off, with new home construction to follow here too — still another sign of the continuing housing boom on Staten Island, which has gone on virtually uninterrupted since the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... The Presentation Sisters (also known as the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary) are a Roman Catholic religious order, founded in Ireland by Nano Nagle in 1775. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Verrazano Bridge redirects here; for the bridge to Assateague Island, see Verrazano Bridge (Maryland). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...


Chicago Cubs pitcher Jason Marquis, though born in Manhasset, was raised in Arden Heights and attended Tottenville High School. Major league affiliations National League (1876–present) Central Division (1994–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 10, 14, 23, 26, 42 Name Chicago Cubs (1902–present) Chicago Orphans (1898-1901) Chicago Colts (1890-1897) Chicago White Stockings (1870-1889) (a. ... Jason Scott Marquis (born August 21, 1978, in Manhasset, New York), is an American Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. ... Manhasset is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. ... // Tottenville High School is located at 100 Luten Ave. ...


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Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located on an island of the same name on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor.
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Arden Heights, Staten Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (549 words)
Arden Heights is a name increasingly applied to the western part of Annadale, a neighborhood located on the South Shore of Staten Island, New York City, USA.
Erastus Wiman, a noted Staten Island real estate developer, coined the name "Arden Heights" in 1886; the origin of the name is somewhat of an enigma, as the immediate area contains no hills of any significance.
In 1982 the orphanage, situated off of Arthur Kill Road, closed, with some of the land on which it stood being sold to developers (who have since built the haphazard Aspen Knolls development, with its poorly laid out infrastructure) and the remainder set aside for use as a church, named for the recently-canonized St.
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