Greenridge, Staten Island
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Greenridge or Marshland is a name sometimes used to denote the western part of Eltingville, a neighborhood on Staten Island's South Shore.
The area's earliest settlers were
Huguenots, who are also responsible for a nearby South Shore neighborhood being named Huguenot. The Dutch called it Kleine Kill, or Little Creek, and the British called it Fresh Kills, into which Richmond Creek
, which forms its western boundary, empties. The area appears to have received its present name (sometimes spelled Green Ridge) about 1876.
In 1921, a highly popular restaurant and amusement place resembling today's
John C. Drumgoole who founded an orphanage in Pleasant Plains
.
Greenridge has seen much development — a great deal of it commercial — in recent decades, including the construction of a public transit center, the Eltingville Transit Center, in the early 2000s. Many passengers wait there each weekday morning for express buses that take them to their jobs in downtown or Midtown Manhattan.
References
- ^ "Al Deppe's". Forgotten NY. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
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