Cedar Grove Beach
Distinctly calmer than the main boardwalk beaches and one of the borough’s four public beaches. (NYC Parks)
Cedar Grove East Beach
Quieter Cedar Grove segment with real local-use value. (NYC Parks)
Crooke's Point Beach
Distinct shoreline area generic maps commonly fail to treat as product-worthy. (National Park Service)
Fox Beach
Quiet named shoreline inside Great Kills with real hidden-gem appeal. (NYC Parks)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk Beach
Useful umbrella shoreline for the borough’s main urban beachfront. (NYC Parks)
Great Kills Park Beach
One of the three designated swimming beaches in Gateway NRA. (National Park Service)
Midland Beach
One of the borough’s central public beaches with a major boardwalk presence. (NYC Parks)
Midland Shoreline Beach
Local-value shoreline segment often lost inside the broader Midland label. (NYC Parks)
New Dorp Beach
Often buried inside the broader Great Kills or Cedar Grove area despite being a named beach. (NYC Parks)
Oakwood Beach
A lesser-known but legitimate Great Kills coastal entry. (NYC Parks)
South Beach
Staten Island’s best-known beach and a core NYC public swimming beach. (NYC Parks)
South Beach Promenade Shoreline
Useful sub-area of South Beach that usually gets flattened away. (NYC Parks)
Wolfe's Pond Beach
The strongest southern Staten Island beach destination. (NYC Parks)
Wolfe's Pond Shoreline
Low-noise shoreline entry that generic datasets usually ignore. (NYC Parks)
Staten Island sits in New York, USA and is home to 14 ranked beaches on OnlyBeaches. Every beach here is scored by the OnlyBeaches Index — a 1-10 metric blending water purity, live conditions (waves, water temperature, wind), crowd intelligence and vibe.
Whether you're after the highest-scoring beach in Staten Island or a quieter hidden cove, the list above is refreshed every 30 minutes using live Stormglass and OpenWeather data.
