Home Values · Staten Island · Emerson Hill, NY
What's your home worth in Emerson Hill?
The median home in Emerson Hill sold for $960,000 — single-family prices ▲ 10.2% over the past year.
Based on recorded residential sales over the last 12 months (all home types). Source: ATTOM public property records · updated quarterly · as of July 2026.
About the neighborhood
Where Thoreau came to stay
Steep and wooded, Emerson Hill rises above Staten Island with views stretching from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge across New York Harbor to New Jersey's Highlands. Judge William Emerson, brother of Ralph Waldo, built his estate here in the mid-1800s, and the family home hosted Henry David Thoreau for a season. Older center-hall colonials, English Tudors, and stone cottages hold the southern slopes, with newer houses tucked into the trees to the north.
Many roads, including Douglas Road, Tanglewood Drive, and Longfellow Avenue, are private, marked by stone gates rather than a formal gated entrance. Residents have long defended the tree cover, and the Greenbelt's trails and local shops sit minutes away. The trade is winding access for genuine seclusion inside the city.
Where Emerson Hill sits
The official neighborhood boundary — every sale behind the numbers above closed inside this outline.
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