Staten Island, NY guide
Snug Harbor's Temple Row buildings have anchored Staten Island's North Shore since 1833. Here's what cleanout and renovation work looks like for the neighborhoods built up around this landmark campus.
Sea captain Robert Richard Randall left his estate at his 1801 death to found a retirement home for "aged, decrepit and worn-out sailors." The resulting institution, Sailors' Snug Harbor, opened its first building in 1833, requiring residents to have served at least ten years on foreign-going vessels or five years in the U.S. Navy. The centerpiece is "Temple Row" — five connected Greek Revival buildings designed chiefly by Minard Lafever and built between 1831 and 1880 — enclosed by an 1842 cast-iron fence, on an 83-acre campus that also displays Beaux-Arts, Italianate and Victorian architecture. The complex was declared a National Historic Landmark district, with individual buildings receiving NYC Landmark status in 1965.
Since 1976, the site has operated as the nonprofit Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. It hosts a branch of the Staten Island Museum that opened in 2015, a children's museum, and the 55-acre Staten Island Botanical Garden, which includes the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden, completed in 1999. It's one of the most architecturally significant sites on the island, and it sits at the center of a genuinely historic North Shore neighborhood.
Snug Harbor sits in West New Brighton, part of the North Shore's Community Board 1 area — the most urban, most transit-accessible part of Staten Island, running roughly north of the Staten Island Expressway. Nearby neighborhoods including New Brighton, Randall Manor and Livingston share a similar older housing character, with homes and buildings that in many cases predate much of the island's post-1964 South Shore development by decades.
Older homes near a historic district like this one tend to generate a more varied renovation debris load than a comparable newer-home remodel — plaster instead of drywall in some structures, original wood trim and period fixtures worth setting aside for salvage rather than demolishing outright, and sometimes older mechanical or plumbing systems coming out as part of a modernization project. It's worth flagging anything you'd like set aside when you call, so we can plan the load accordingly.
North Shore streets near Snug Harbor and the surrounding older neighborhoods can run narrower and more tightly packed than the newer, more spread-out South Shore developments built after 1964. Tell us your address and street layout when you call, and we'll plan container placement around your specific block rather than assuming a standard driveway setup.
Most single-room renovations on the area's older housing stock fit a 15 or 20 yard container. A larger whole-home renovation, or a project involving significant demolition of older plaster and fixtures, more often calls for a 30 yard.
| Size | Dimensions | Capacity | Weight included | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Yard Dumpster | 14 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 3.5 ft high | 50–70 bags | 1–2 tons | Small cleanouts, roofing shingles, tight driveways. |
| 15 Yard Dumpster | 16 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | 80–100 bags | 2–3 tons | Flooring, bathroom or kitchen updates, multi-room cleanouts. |
| 20 Yard Dumpster | 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | 110–130 bags | 3–4 tons | Medium remodels, roofing jobs, light construction. |
| 30 Yard Dumpster | 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 6 ft high | 170–190 bags | 4–5 tons | Whole-home projects, office cleanouts. |
| 40 Yard Dumpster | 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 8 ft high | 230–250 bags | 5–6 tons | Large builds, commercial or industrial jobs. |
Call (718) 808-9313 and describe your North Shore property — the age of the home, the scope of work, and the street access. We'll size the container and plan placement to fit.
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From this guide
Sailors' Snug Harbor opened its first building in 1833 as a retirement home for sailors. It has operated as the nonprofit Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden since 1976.
Temple Row is five connected Greek Revival buildings designed chiefly by Minard Lafever and built between 1831 and 1880, forming the architectural centerpiece of the 83-acre Snug Harbor campus.
Snug Harbor sits in West New Brighton on Staten Island's North Shore, within the area covered by Community Board 1.
Most single-room renovations on the area's older housing stock fit a 15 or 20 yard. Larger whole-home renovations more often call for a 30 yard.
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