Staten Island

:For other uses, see Staten Island (disambiguation)

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Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located on an island of the same name on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor. It is coterminous with Richmond County, the southernmost county of the State of New York.

Related Topics:
Borough - New York City - Narrows - New York Harbor - New York

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The existence of the borough dates from unification of New York City in 1898. Until 1975, however, the borough was known formally as Richmond.

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By far the least populated, most ethnically homogeneous, and most remote borough of New York City, Staten Island is sometimes the object of humor by residents of the other boroughs as being somewhat enigmatic and rustically suburban. Indeed, much of the central and southern sections of the island were once dominated by farms, primarily dairy and poultry farms, some of which were still in existence as recently as the early 1960s. Yet the borough's steady rise in population since the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge has added to a sharp increase in traffic that plagues the island due to its frequent road construction.

Related Topics:
1960s - Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

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