Elm Park is a small park in the Port Richmond section of

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, one of the five boroughs of

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, United States. The park is located across Innis Street from

Port Richmond High School Port Richmond High School is a public high school on the North Shore of Staten Island, New York City, New York. It is located in the Elm Park neighborhood, at 85 St Josephs Avenue between Innis Street and Charles Avenue. It has approximatel ...

. The name "Elm Park" is sometimes used to denote the area from its namesake westward for several blocks, lending its name to the former Elm Park Station on the North Shore Branch of the

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. The station was situated directly beneath Morningstar Road. Passenger service on this branch of the railway was halted in 1953; a dilapidated remnant of the station's platform still exists, but the stairways leading to the street have been removed. At various times, the neighborhood was known as Jacksonville (c. 1830) and Lowville (c. 1850). Its present name was given to it by a local physician, Dr. John T. Harrison, and refers to the

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trees that could be found on the doctor's estate. The last exit on

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before the

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is in Elm Park, which also contains one of two Catholic cemeteries on Staten Island named St. Mary's Cemetery; the other cemetery, located in Grasmere, is much larger than the Elm Park cemetery. This often causes confusion. In 2008 Senator

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and other Staten Island representatives proposed a

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under the bridge, for users of bus service to

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. Residents have been opposed to this move, yet local businesses, according to the

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, support it.

Demographics

In the early 20th Century a large number of

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families settled in Elm Park, and they still constitute a percentage of its population; many of these families are parishioners of St. Adalbert's Church, a

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church located in the community, which later received some

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and

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arrivals, particularly in the westernmost blocks bordering Mariners Harbor. As of the 2010 census, the area was 43.2% Hispanic, 24.1% White, 23.1% Black, 7% Asian, and 2.6% Other This is using a definition of Census Tract 239, and Block Group 2 of Tract 223.

Transportation

Elm Park was served by the

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, until it closed in 1953. Elm Park is served by .

Education

Most public school students in Elm Park are zoned to the following schools: *P.S. 21 *P.S. 22 *I.S. 51 *Port Richmond High School

References

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