Egbertville is the name of a neighborhood located immediately inland from, but classifiable within, the
East Shore of the
borough of
Staten Island
Staten Island ( ) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the city's southwest portion, the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull an ...
in
New York City. Originally named Stony Brook as the island's first
county seat, then renamed after a family that owned a farm there in the 18th century, Egbertville was known for a time as Morgan's Corner, from 1838. Soon after this, many
Irish families arrived in the area, leading to its being referred to (somewhat jokingly) by such names as Tipperary Corners, New Dublin, and Young Ireland.
Egbertville is at the center of the
Staten Island Greenbelt
The Staten Island Greenbelt is a system of contiguous public parkland and natural areas in the central hills of the New York City borough of Staten Island. It is the second largest component of the parks owned by the government of New York City a ...
, with the park system's administrative offices being located there.
Richmond Creek flows through a ravine, named the Egbertville Ravine after the neighborhood, as it skims the eastern base of
Lighthouse Hill. The community's main thoroughfare is Rockland Avenue, which provides a shortcut between
New Dorp
New Dorp is a neighborhood on the East Shore of Staten Island, New York City, United States. New Dorp is bounded by Mill Road on the southeast, Tysens Lane on the southwest, Amboy and Richmond Roads on the northwest, and Bancroft Avenue on the no ...
on the East Shore and the busy
New Springville
New Springville is a neighborhood in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, USA.
History
Located near the island's geographical center, the neighborhood was founded in 1680 in Karle's Neck,
so it was later named Karle's Neck V ...
section of
Mid-Island
Mid-Island is frequently applied to a series of neighborhoods within the New York City borough of Staten Island.
Under the definition most commonly adhered to, Mid-Island comprises all of the communities whose ZIP Code is 10314, plus Sunnysi ...
.
The
Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art and
Moore-McMillen House
Moore-McMillen House is a historic home located at Egbertville, Staten Island, New York. It was built in 1818 as the rectory for the Church of St. Andrew. It is a modest, two-story frame farmhouse set on a fieldstone foundation with a gambr ...
are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Egbertville is served by the local buses.
References
Neighborhoods in Staten Island
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