Closest monitor was 1.3 miles away from the city center. The landfill, once the world's largest man-made structure,[37] was closed in 2001,[38] but was briefly re-opened for the debris from Ground Zero following the September 11 attacks in 2001. [24] YouTube personality CGP Grey addressed the story of the Staten Island race and its historical discrepancies in a 2019 video,[25] in which he concluded that Gabriel Disosway, a local chronicler in Staten Island, was responsible for originating the legend in the mid-1800s.[26]. In addition to the island's highways (I-278, NY 440, Korean War Veterans Parkway), the borough's neighborhoods are connected by a number of heavily trafficked roads including Hylan Boulevard, the longest street in New York City.[140]. At the time of European contact, the island was inhabited by the Raritan band of the Unami division of the Lenape. The SIM1C, SIM3C, SIM4C and SIM33C are the only express routes to run outside of weekday commuter hours.[162]. Display/hide their locations on the map, Shopping Centers: Staten Island Mall Shopping Center (1), Charleston Retail Center Shopping Center (2), Hylan Shopping Plaza Shopping Center (3), Pergament Enterprises Mall Shopping Center (4). But both the 61st[72] and 63rd[73] districts have elected Democrats, Charles Fall and Michael J. Cusick. [163] The hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan coined the nickname "Shaolin Land" (later simply Shaolin) as part of their slang. About 78.2% of the population was born in the United States, and 1.8% was born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or abroad to American parents. The towns of Staten Island were dissolved in 1898 with the consolidation of the City of Greater New York, as Richmond County became one of the five boroughs of the expanded city. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. The highest rate of bachelors degrees is among asian people with a rate of 44.72%. Other areas with a small concentration of Asians were Graniteville, Willowbrook, Concord, Castleton Corners, Park Hill, Rosebank, South Beach, and Grasmere. Per the 2009 American Community Survey, the median income for a household was $55,039, and the median income for a family was $64,333. In total, 29.61% (128,827) of Staten Island's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.[9]. [137], Robert "Bob" Duffield Wrenn four-time U.S. singles championship winner, and one of the first inductees in the International Tennis Hall of Fame was a tennis member at Richmond County Country Club.
On the northeastern tip of the island and around Victory Boulevard there is a sizable Sri Lankan population. L'île de Staten Island constitue la partie sud-ouest de la ville de New York, dont elle est séparée par la Upper New York Bay, The Narrows et la Lower New York Bay. L'arrondissement de Staten Island est resté assez rural jusqu'à l'ouverture du pont Verrazzano-Narrows en 1964, lorsque son statut insulaire s'est transformé en celui de banlieue à fort développement urbain. Over 323,000 non-Hispanic whites reside in the borough, and they make up 65.8% of the population. The 2000 census, there were 443,728 people, 156,341 households, and 114,052 families residing in the borough / county. On y pratique alors une déforestation intensive. Particulate Matter (PM10) [µg/m3] level in 2003 was 26.9. Among those working part-time, it was 10.48%, and for those that did not work, the poverty rate was 22.51%.
À la fin des années 1960, s'élèvent plusieurs querelles sur les questions environnementales et la préservation de la nature. Motor traffic can reach the borough from Brooklyn via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and from New Jersey via the Outerbridge Crossing, Goethals Bridge and Bayonne Bridge.
Ultimately, 65% of Staten island residents voted to secede, through the approval of a new city charter making Staten Island an independent city, but implementation was blocked in the State Assembly.[35][36]. [5], About 35.7% of Staten Island's residents have Italian origin. Overall, indigenous peoples make up only 0.2% of the population.
Clovena Club was in the vicinity of Clove Road and Victory Boulevard in 1897. Approximately 71.4% of the population over five years of age spoke English only at home, so 28.6% of the population spoke non-English languages. It had two sections: a Strategic Homeport in Stapleton and a larger section near Fort Wadsworth, where the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge enters the island. Staten Island is the base of New York City's Republican Party in citywide elections. If each borough were ranked as a city, Staten Island would rank as the 39th most-populous in the U.S. Staten Island joined New York City in 1898, and was referred to as the Borough of Richmond until 1975. La Tourette, Silver Lake, and South Shore are public, while Richmond County Country Club is the only private country club in New York City.