Tottenville, Staten Island

Neighborhood guide · 10307

Tottenville

Tottenville sits at the bottom of Staten Island, and at the bottom of New York State. Ward’s Point, inside Conference House Park, is the southernmost land in the state. Everything here runs from that fact: the long commute, the deep lots, the water on three sides.

Zip code
10307
Position
Southernmost neighborhood in New York State
Rail
Last stop on the Staten Island Railway
To St George
About 40 minutes by rail
To New Jersey
Outerbridge Crossing, roughly a mile away
Neighbors
Pleasant Plains, Richmond Valley and Charleston
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Getting off the island

Tottenville is where the routes begin rather than where they pass through, which is the practical difference between a long commute and an unpleasant one. You board at the start, so you get a seat.

  • Staten Island Railway. Tottenville is the southern terminus, and the southernmost railway station in both New York City and New York State. The line runs 24 hours a day, and St George is about 40 minutes away.
  • The ferry. Free since 4 July 1997, and about 25 minutes across to Lower Manhattan.
  • Express buses. Three routes start in Tottenville. The SIM2 runs to Lower Manhattan, ending at Church and Worth Streets. The SIM25 and the SIM26 both run to Midtown. Express fares are higher than the local fare.
  • By car. The Outerbridge Crossing is roughly a mile away, which puts New Jersey closer than most of Staten Island.

What the housing looks like

Five broad types, inside one zip code. The pattern is inherited: tighter lots near the water where the working houses went up, larger lots further up the hill.

  • Victorians and frame houses. The oldest of the stock, much of it built while the oyster trade was still running.
  • Capes and colonials. The everyday middle of the market here.
  • Raised ranches on deep lots. Lot depth is the thing worth noticing. It is unusual for the city.
  • Semi-attached houses and townhouses. Newer, and generally the lower entry point.
  • Waterfront condominiums. A small number, with the beach across the road.

A house older than the country

The Conference House, long known as the Billopp House, was built around 1680 and stands near Ward’s Point. On 11 September 1776, two months after the Declaration of Independence, Admiral Lord Richard Howe met Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge there to try to end the war. It lasted about three hours and settled nothing, and it was the only face to face meeting between the two sides for the whole of the war.

The house is still standing and open as a museum, inside Conference House Park, with a public beach and trails around it.

The full story, including what the oyster trade and Atlantic Terra Cotta left behind, is in our guide to Tottenville.

The town the oyster built. Tottenville grew on the water. Oystering, shipbuilding and boatyards through the nineteenth century, then Atlantic Terra Cotta from 1898, which became the largest architectural terra cotta works in the world and supplied the Flatiron Building, the Woolworth Building and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The settlement was called Bentley Manor, then Unionville, and took the name Tottenville in 1869 after the Totten family.

The shoreline is being rebuilt

Hurricane Sandy tore through this shoreline in 2012. The answer was Living Breakwaters, a $111 million project completed in October 2024: eight structures, each about 400 feet long, 2,400 feet of breakwater in total, sitting offshore so the waves break on rock instead of on the beach. Oyster restoration is still going, with the first round finished in July 2025 and the second expected in summer 2026.

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Sources: NYC Parks, the Historic House Trust, NYS Homes and Community Renewal on Living Breakwaters, and MTA for rail and express bus service. Market conditions change; nothing here is a valuation.

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Tottenville Gallery

Every photo here was taken by our team on the street in Tottenville. Not stock, not listing photos. If you want to know what a place actually looks like before you drive out to see it, this is it.

Sign for Bethel United Methodist Church and its churchyard on Amboy Road in Tottenville Brick church behind a low stone wall and mature trees in Tottenville Brick civic building at the top of a wide paved walk with iron railings in Tottenville Brick building with a columned entrance and arched windows in Tottenville Blue Victorian house with a wraparound porch and carved trim in Tottenville White house with a mansard roof and a brick path to the front porch in Tottenville White Second Empire house with dormer windows and a flag on the porch in Tottenville Welcome to Tottenville sign at the shore with the fishing pier and Raritan Bay behind it Welcome to Tottenville sign beside a flag with Raritan Bay in the background Red brick building at Tottenville station with Raritan Bay beyond the sea wall Covered walkway at Tottenville station, the southernmost station in New York State Long fishing pier reaching out over Raritan Bay from the Tottenville shore Carved Welcome To Tottenville sign reading established 1869 Large modern house with a stone fountain and clipped hedges in the front garden Dark shingled colonial house with white window trim and a pedimented entrance Path leading to a house set back behind mature trees in Tottenville Stucco house with a red tiled roof and hydrangeas along the front steps Single storey brick house behind a large shade tree in Tottenville Pale green Victorian house with a white covered porch and a flag by the steps A stucco house with square columns beside two neighbouring houses of different eras Grey Victorian house with a covered porch and bunting along the rail Timber pavilion on the Tottenville boardwalk looking across Raritan Bay Late sun on Raritan Bay seen from the pavilion on the Tottenville boardwalk View across Raritan Bay to the far shoreline from the Tottenville boardwalk Stone side elevation of the Conference House under old trees Stone path running along the side of the Conference House Front of the Conference House, the stone manor house built before 1680 White panelled door and worn brick steps at the front of the Conference House Bronze plaque naming the Conference House, long known as the Billopp House Park sign for the caretaker's quarters at Conference House Park Gravel path through Conference House Park beside a timber rail fence Path running between trees and a timber fence in Conference House Park Driftwood on the sand at the Tottenville shore with clouds over Raritan Bay Shallow water washing over sand on the Tottenville beach A tanker crossing the horizon on Raritan Bay seen from the Tottenville shore The Living Breakwaters line seen from the beach at Tottenville The Living Breakwaters structures sitting offshore in Raritan Bay off Tottenville The sand curving away along the Tottenville shoreline Living Breakwaters segments along the horizon on Raritan Bay off Tottenville Stony shoreline at Tottenville with a tanker in the distance Sand and calm water along the Tottenville shore

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