Affordable housing units are still available at Lighthouse Point, a 15-story residential building at 35R Bay Street in St. George, Staten Island. Designed by Cooper Carry Architects and developed by Triangle Equities, the structure yields 115 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are five units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $134,298 to $227,500.
Lighthouse Point in St. George, Staten Island via NYC Housing Connect
Lighthouse Point in St. George, Staten Island via NYC Housing Connect
Amenities include doorman, package room, elevator, on-site resident manager, pet-friendly policies, tenant lounge, fitness room, bike storage, covered parking, and a rooftop terrace. Units are equipped with laundry, dishwasher, stainless steel energy-efficient appliances, and hardwood floors. Tenants are responsible for electricity, including stove.
Lighthouse Point in St. George, Staten Island via NYC Housing Connect
At 130 percent of the AMI, there are five two-bedrooms with a monthly rent of $3,750 for incomes ranging from $134,298 to $227,500.
Lighthouse Point in St. George, Staten Island via NYC Housing Connect
Prospective renters must meet income and household size requirements to apply for these apartments. Applications must be postmarked or submitted online no later than March 6, 2026.
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It’s a nice building but it’s cursed by being in Staten Island. Even being right across the street from St George terminal, living in Staten Island adds an additional 25 minutes to any trip to Manhattan by default and there’s virtually nothing to do in the area. Unless you work in the Financial District, it makes it difficult to justify the cost of “luxury” apartments there.
Many people don’t need daily access to “the city” but they want predictable periodic access for certain work meetings and social activities. This would work for them.
Socially Staten Island links more to Brooklyn than Manhattan. There is a reason the population grew after the Verrazano Bridge opened. And the subway that was supposed to link SI was started in Brooklyn. Sadly it wasn’t finished – but yeah it made much more sense than trying to build it to Manhattan
^ but if you do work downtown or midtown you are golden. the water taxi is quicker than the ferry, but anyway its no worse than commuting from in the middle of the other boros and the boat is much more pleasant than trains or busses. romantic even i swear. its even supposed to get a fancy grocery after they finish restoration work on the historic brick wall around part of it. and so for these reasons much more to come for north shore staten. ps — there is a lot more “to do” in walking distance than you think.
The water taxi is quicker than the Staten Island Ferry but it is still slow and also able to be disrupted by weather a lot more easily than the train. For example NYC Ferry service is still suspended over a week post-blizzard due to freezing conditions on the river.
It is also absolutely worse than commuting from the middle of the outer boroughs. Take for example someone who lives in Crown Heights which is smack dab in central Brooklyn and often has apartments going for the same rents as listed here. Depending on where you live you are steps from the 2/3/4/5/A/C and LIRR. If we were talking about somewhere deep in Brooklyn like Canarsie or the far reaches of Queens, I’d make the same statements as I do about this building. It’s too far from anything to justify the cost of luxury housing and there’s little to do there.
I don’t doubt there are actually things to do in walking distance but it’s not as much as you’d find in parts of the other boroughs with similarly priced apartments. Empire Outlets isn’t exactly a hotspot and Staten Island’s restaurants or bars aren’t really making it to any lists lately.
lol no and doubling down doesnt make you right. the boats are very very easy commute. of course the water taxis are affected by weather, but the ferry reliablely runs regardless. and yes there are things to do here groceries, restaurants, parks and the like. that they don’t make lists more reflects that the youthful underpaid content providers live in bushwick moreso than reality. btw they are currently rebuilding the boardwalk from the ferry to stapleton and that will be nice too when it opens this summer.
It’s not an argument, it’s a discussion. I don’t care about being right, maybe you do idk?
I never said there aren’t things to do. I said that there is “virtually nothing to do” which is hyperbolic but in reality means that there is little to do. I absolutely stand by that opinion and that it’s not worth charging “luxury” prices for when every hotspot on ever list in the city is in virtually every other borough and a lot more accessible b folks living in the outer boroughs, save for people in the places in the other outer boroughs that have poor transportation options.
I’m sure all of those things they’re building like the boardwalk will be nice when they’re done.
Economically, Staten Island is more linked to Manhattan than Brooklyn.
of course, its where the firefighters, electricians, office staff, etc. live. the ferry and all the express busses are full to the brim during rush hours and they go to manhattan, not brooklyn. that downisland italians came over from brooklyn after the bridge was built is just history that has long been over shadowed by succeeding immigration on the north shore and elsewhere since then. there isn’t much of an economy on staten outside of eds/meds and an amazon warehouse.
There’s nothing affordable about 130 AMI pricing.
And only 5 units are priced at 130% AMI.
Applied and my application been pending for over a year. They just pick and choose who they want, nothing lottery about this one.