Living in Arden Heights: rent, commute and grades

Staten Island · Updated November 2026

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This guide also covers Rossville, which shares Arden Heights’s official city boundaries.

Rent in Arden Heights

$1,658 a month, estimated

Type of homeA room in a 2-bedroom, shared by two

C-Overall

Grades compare NYC neighborhoods with each other. How the grades work.

FWalkability
The average home has 2.5 of 5 everyday needs within a 10-minute walk (grocery store, restaurant, cafe, subway station, park) and about 12 places to eat or shop.
FFood and shopping
Within a 10-minute walk of the average home: about 4 places to eat, 4 kinds of cuisine, 0.7 large grocery stores and 6 open storefronts.
C-Parks and green space
71% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 466 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 333 street trees within 300 m of the average home.

FCommunity
13% of households moved in since 2018, 2% are roommates sharing a home, 16% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 1 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
FNightlife
About 0 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

A+Safety
1 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (33 in all).
A+Quiet
13 noise complaints to 311 per 1,000 residents in 2025, not counting helicopter complaints, and counting each address at most 12 days a year. That measures how often people complain, not how loud it is.
A+Building upkeep
4.2 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 0.7 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

By subway or bus, arriving by 9:00 on a weekday:Under 30 min30 to 45 min45 to 60 minOver an hourArden Heights

Residents: Commuting between Rossville and Brooklyn is a daily struggle. Resident since 2021, Aug 2024

Arden Heights Woods is an 8-acre state-owned forested wetland with a footpath from Woodrow Road to a pond. It adjoins the city's 183-acre Arden Woods Park. Source
Arden Heights Woods sits on a ground moraine left by the last ice age, part of the Harbor Hill moraine that crosses Staten Island, and draws visitors for hiking and bird-watching. Source
Staten Island real estate developer Erastus Wiman coined the name Arden Heights in 1886. Source
Village Greens, a planned development of clustered townhomes on looped streets off Arden Avenue and Arthur Kill Road, opened in 1971 and changed the area. Source
In Rossville, the Sleight Family Graveyard, also called the Rossville or Blazing Star Burial Ground, on Arthur Kill Road at Rossville Avenue, is one of Staten Island's first community burial grounds, with gravestones from 1750. It became a city landmark in 1968. Source

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