FDNY Engine Company 168, which was organized in June 2005. Engine 168 operates out of a brand new firehouse located at the corner of Rossville Avenue and Veterans Road East, which was built in 2004, and is staffed with an FDNY EMS Battalion. Education Rossville is served by the New York City Department of Education and is located in Region 7, Community School District 31. Elementary school students are zoned to PS 56 Louis DeSario School, and middle school students are zoned to either IS 75 Frank D. Paulo School or IS 34 Totten School. For children with learning and emotional disabilities, there is a K-12 Special Needs school called South Richmond High School PS/IS 25. The Roman Catholic elementary school in the area is the St. Joseph - St. Thomas School. Nearby high schools include Tottenville High School and St. Joseph by the Sea High School. Transportation Rossville is served by the S74/S84 local buses on Bloomingdale Road and Rossville Avenue, and the S55 on Bloomingdale Road. It is also served by the SIM25 Manhattan express bus on Rossville Avenue, and the SIM26 on Bloomingdale Road. Some parts of Rossville are also within walking distance to the Pleasant Plains station on the Staten Island Railway. New York State Route 440 passes through Rossville. Notable residents James A. Bradley (1830–1921) – brush maker, New Jersey politician, founder of Asbury Park and Bradley Beach Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900) – landscape artist of the Hudson River School, born on his family's farm in Rossville Caleb Lyon (1822–1875) – New York politician, later Governor of the Territory of Idaho Daniel Rodriguez (born 1964) – operatic tenor known as "The Singing Policeman" for his former work in NYPD's Ceremonial Unit References External links Sandy Ground Historical Museum Save Sandy Ground Forgotten NY - The End of New York - The Ruins of Rossville Undercity.org - A guerrilla historian in Gotham - Tugboat Graveyard on Staten Island A map of Rossville at The New York Times Finding Numina in a Remote Corner of New York City Neighborhoods in Staten Island 1827 establishments in New York (state) History of Staten Island African-American history in New York City Populated places on the Underground Railroad Populated places in New York established by African Americans Populated places established in 1827 Underground Railroad in New York (state)