Living in Tottenville: rent, commute and grades

Staten Island · Updated November 2026

The turreted Victorian Kreischer House on a green hill under a blue sky with a path in front.

A lit, half-timbered inn on a corner at night with string lights.

The cream-coloured inn on its corner with parked cars and a street light.

Green clapboard workers' houses behind picket fences under spring trees.

Rows of green houses beneath leafy trees.

Photo credits

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Photo: Peter Greenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This guide also covers Richmond Valley and Charleston, which share Tottenville’s official city boundaries.

Rent in Tottenville

$1,846 a month, estimated

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

Tottenville is cheaper with roommates

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Everyday life

FWalkability
The average home has 3.1 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, 3 kinds of cuisine, 0.6 large grocery stores and 7 open storefronts.
FParks and green space
65% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 267 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 223 street trees within 300 m of the average home.

People

FCommunity
13% of households moved in since 2018, 3% are roommates sharing a home, 14% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 2 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
FNightlife
About 2 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

Home and safety

ASafety
3 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (53 in all).
B-Quiet
36 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.
ABuilding upkeep
2.3 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 3.6 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

Who lives there

Young families

Getting around from Tottenville

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

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Residents: A daily drive from Tottenville to Lower Manhattan works for one resident household, which likes living far from the city. Resident, Aug 2024

What to know about Tottenville

Tottenville, at the southwestern tip of Staten Island, has been the largest and most cohesive settlement on the island's southern end since the 1870s and has kept the feel of a suburban village, according to a 1995 city landmarks report. Source
A hamlet formed around the ferry landing to Perth Amboy by the 1840s and took its name from the Totten family's wharf, Totten's Landing. Oystering and shipbuilding stayed the main trades into the 1920s. Source
The Conference House at the foot of Hylan Boulevard, a stone manor house Christopher Billopp built around 1680, hosted the failed peace conference of September 11, 1776, where John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Edward Rutledge met Lord Howe. Source
Conference House Park holds the Aakawaxung Munahanung Archaeological Site, about 20 acres that the city made a landmark in 2021 for over 8,000 years of Indigenous occupation, the first city landmark specifically recognizing Indigenous peoples. Source
Tottenville is mostly one- and two-family detached houses, many of them single-family homes on lots 40 feet wide, according to a 2005 City Planning Commission report. Source
The Tottenville Branch of the New York Public Library at 7430 Amboy Road, built in 1903-04 with Andrew Carnegie's money to a design by Carrere & Hastings, is the oldest public library building on Staten Island. Source
Charleston, in the guide's northern part, was once Kreischerville, a 19th-century village that grew up around the Kreischer brick works; a pair of brick workers' double houses from about 1890 on Kreischer Street is a city landmark. Source