East Shore

A corner bar at the bottom of New Dorp Lane, down where the street runs out at the beach, open from eight in the morning until four the next. Televisions, a pool table and a kitchen putting out burgers and wings. It is the last thing open on this end of the island most nights.

Daily, 8am to 4am

A surf-shack taco place on New Dorp Plaza by the railway station, the New Dorp branch of a small Staten Island group that started on Forest Avenue. Tacos, burritos and frozen margaritas, ordered at the counter or at a table. Loud, bright, and nobody minds how long you sit.

Mon and Tue, 11:30am to 9pm. Wed to Sat, 11:30am to 10pm. Sun, 11:30am to 9pm

Two fieldstone buildings on a Lighthouse Hill slope, built in the 1940s to look like a Himalayan monastery, holding one of the larger collections of Tibetan art in the western hemisphere. There is a terraced garden with a lotus pond behind them and a view down to Raritan Bay. Admission is ten dollars and it is open Wednesday to Sunday afternoons only.

Wed to Sun, 1pm to 5pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

A comic shop on New Dorp Lane run by two people who have been selling comics on this island since the 1980s, with new issues racked by week and long boxes behind them. There are back issues, trade paperbacks and the usual toys and statues. It opens at noon and shuts at six or seven, so it is an afternoon errand rather than an evening one.

Mon, Tue, Sat and Sun, noon to 6pm. Wed to Fri, noon to 7pm

The Midland Avenue end of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk, which runs about two and a half miles north from here toward Fort Wadsworth with the Verrazzano bridge in front of you the whole way. A sea turtle fountain sits at the entrance and there is a playground beside it. The beach itself is guarded from Memorial Day weekend to the Sunday after Labor Day.

Boardwalk daily, 6am to 9pm. Lifeguards 10am to 6pm in beach season

A hundred and eighty-seven acres of flat former airfield at the foot of New Dorp Lane, now ball fields, a bocce court, picnic tables and a stand of swamp white oak that birders walk. Two enormous 1920s seaplane hangars still stand at the edge of it. A short beach runs along the bay side, though the Park Service does not recommend going in.

Daily, 6am to 9pm. Ranger station 8:30am to 5pm

A Chinese bakery on Hylan Boulevard, the first on the island, opened after a soft launch a few years back. Egg tarts, Portuguese custard tarts, pineapple buns and a case of cheesecakes, with matcha lattes and coffee to go with them. You take a tray and a pair of tongs at the door.

Daily, 7am to 6pm

A Yemeni coffeehouse on New Dorp Lane pouring adeni chai and cardamom-heavy coffee alongside the usual espresso drinks, with pistachio cake and honeycomb bread to go with it. It keeps hours nothing else on the lane keeps, to ten most nights and midnight on the weekend. Tables fill with people who are staying a while.

Mon to Thu, 7am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 8am to midnight. Sun, 8am to 10pm

A hundred and thirteen acres off Richmond Road, opened in 1740 and still the oldest working cemetery on the island, with two freshwater lakes, three bridges and fifty-one miles of path. Richard Morris Hunt built the Vanderbilt mausoleum into the hillside here in 1886 and Frederick Law Olmsted laid out the ground in front of it. The gates are open to anyone during the day.

Daily, 8am to 5pm. 8am to 6pm July and August. Office Mon to Fri, 9am to 3pm

A Cantonese dim sum parlor on New Dorp Lane with a large dining floor and a menu that runs all day rather than only at lunch. Dumplings and buns come off a printed order sheet you tick and hand over. It opens at ten in the morning and holds until ten at night, seven days.

Daily, 10am to 10pm

The New Dorp branch of the Port Richmond ice stand, a walk-up window on Hylan Boulevard with the same long list of flavors scrawled above it. You order at the window and eat standing on the sidewalk or in the car. It runs to half past ten at night in season, later than almost anything else on this stretch.

Daily, noon to 10:30pm in season. Closed through the winter months

A sandwich counter on Hylan Boulevard between Grant City and New Dorp, open from seven in the morning on a weekday. Heroes are built to order at the case, there is a short list of daily specials on the board, and breakfast runs early. A handful of tables inside, most of the trade walking out with a paper bag.

Mon to Fri, 7am to 7pm. Sat, 8am to 4pm. Sun, 9am to 3pm

A Greek seafood place at the lower end of New Dorp Lane, cooking whole fish, grilled octopus and the usual spreads, served family style. There is free parking behind the building, which on this stretch of the island is the thing people mention first. Noon to ten or eleven, seven days.

Mon to Fri, noon to 10pm. Sat, noon to 11pm. Sun, noon to 10pm

A bar and grill on New Dorp Plaza right beside the Staten Island Railway platform, which is where the name comes from. Breakfast from nine, a long bar, burgers and wings the rest of the day. Trains going past the window are part of the deal.

Mon to Thu, 9am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 9am to 11pm. Sun, 9am to 9pm