located in the Louis A. and Laura Stirn House which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, and designated a NYC Landmark in 2001. Transportation Grymes Hill is served by the local and limited buses. The express buses provide rush-hour service to and from Manhattan. Notable past residents (by year of death) Governor Thomas Dongan (1634–1715) in 1687 was granted a 5,100-acre manor, of which Grymes Hill was a portion. Daniel D. Tompkins (1774–1825), an American politician and the sixth vice president of the United States. In 1815, he established a settlement along the eastern shore of the island with the purchase of the Van Buskirk Farm in New Brighton, and property on Grymes Hill. His main residence was located on Fort Hill, near Fort Place which burned down in 1874. Oroondates Mauran (1791–1846), a merchant of New York, who in subsequent years became the owner of the first Italian Opera House, purchased his Grymes Hill home in 1831. In winter he lived in Manhattan and in the summer on Staten Island. Furthermore, together with Cornelius Vanderbilt he owned the Staten Island Ferry. He was also one of the oldest members of the Union Club of the City of New York. Suzette Grymes, wife of the noted New Orleans lawyer John Randolph Grymes (1786–1854), bought land in 1836 around Howard Avenue and what is now Grymes Hill Road. Sir Edward Cunard, 2nd Baronet (1816–1869) of the shipping and passenger line family, built his mansion circa 1851. The 38-acre Grymes Hill family estate was named "Bellevue" and was built in the Italianate style. Cunard chose the land for its ocean view. Thomas Eakin (1822–1874), a banker and founder of the New York banking firm Thomas Eakin & Co., owned a house on Howard Avenue called "Eastover," which was designed by architect James Renwick Jr. about 1855 for Mr. Eakin. The home was later owned by James Morgan Davis. John J. Cisco (1806–1884), a merchant in the dry goods business in New York, who retired at the age of thirty-six with a fortune. Some eleven years later, in 1853, he was appointed by President Pierce, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and placed in charge of the Sub-Treasury in New York. He purchase the house erected in 1855 by Ernest Cazet, under the superintendence of Frederick Law Olmsted, the noted landscape architect. Albert Brisbane (1809–1890), an American utopian