Staten Island’s most active developers

NYC’s last frontier is seeing major projects sprout for the first time in decades

From left: Arker Companies' 67-unit housing project for seniors at 533 Bay Street and Ironstate's David Barry
From left: Arker Companies' 67-unit housing project for seniors at 533 Bay Street and Ironstate's David Barry

From the September issue: For decades, Staten Island development was a largely local affair.

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While the borough’s population has exploded in the 50-plus years since the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened and connected the island to Brooklyn, most of the building has been done by small community-based developers. And those developers have mainly built suburban-style, single-family homes, especially in the southern two-thirds of the island. [more]