Tottenville is the southernmost neighborhood of
Staten Island,
New York City and
New York State, with an area of approximately . Originally named
Bentley Manor by one of its first settlers, Captain
Christopher Billop (1638–1726), after a small ship he owned named the
Bentley, the district was renamed
Tottenville in 1869, apparently in honor of the locally prominent Totten family, whose name can be seen on tombstones in one of the earliest churches, Bethel Methodist Church, on Amboy Road.