Staten Island North Shore Action Plan

A New Vision for Staten Island’s North Shore

The Staten Island North Shore Action Plan delivers on a vibrant, mixed-use community for Staten Island—the centerpiece being the long-promised, two-mile waterfront esplanade from Stapleton to Tompkinsville to St. George. The $400 million public waterfront investment will create twenty acres of continuous waterfront access.

The waterfront esplanade will create an extraordinary public amenity for Staten Islanders and visitors—on par with Brooklyn Bridge Park and Hudson River Park. It will also have a catalytic impact on private investment, fully unlocking:

• Up to 600 new Department of Education K-8 school seats
• Up to 1.3 million square feet of new commercial space
• And thousands of new homes

NYCEDC and its partners will prioritize local job placement and career pathway opportunities in Staten Island's North Shore.

In September 2024, NYCEDC broke ground on the public realm elements of the New Stapleton Waterfront site, to continue delivering on the Staten Island North Shore Action Plan. A major component of the Action Plan, the New Stapleton Waterfront is an ongoing initiative to transform a 35-acre former United States Naval base into a new mixed-use community within a framework of open space and esplanades. In total, the New Stapleton Waterfront will bring over 2,100 mixed-income residential units, ground-floor retail, a 600-seat public school, other community facilities, and 12 acres of interconnected public open space.