The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, looking toward Staten Island from Brooklyn The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, looking toward Staten Island from Brooklyn Location of Staten Island, shown in red, in New York City Location of Staten Island, shown in red, in New York City Staten Island is positioned in New York Staten Island - Staten Island (Borough of Staten Island) Staten Island / st t n a l nd/ is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S.
In the southwest of the city, Staten Island is the southernmost part of both the town/city and state of New York, with Conference House Park at the southern tip of the island and the state. The borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay.
With a 2015 Census-estimated populace of 474,558, Staten Island is the least populated of the boroughs but is the third-largest in region at 58 sq mi (150 km2).
Staten Island is the only borough of New York with a non-Hispanic White majority.
Staten Island has been sometimes called "the forgotten borough" by inhabitants who feel neglected by the town/city government. Staten Island has Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus lines and an MTA rapid transit line, the Staten Island Railway, which runs from the ferry terminal at St.
Staten Island is the only borough that is not connected to the New York City Subway system.
The no-charge Staten Island Ferry joins the borough to Manhattan and is a prominent tourist attraction, providing views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and Lower Manhattan.
Staten Island had the Fresh Kills Landfill, which was the world's biggest landfill before method in 2001, although it was temporarily reopened that year to receive debris from the September 11 attacks. The landfill is being redeveloped as Freshkills Park, an region devoted to restoring surrounding; the park will turn into New York City's second biggest enhance park when completed. 5.2 Staten Island flag The island was probably abandoned later, possibly because of the extirpation of large mammals on the island.
In Lenape, one of the Algonquian languages, Staten Island was called Aquehonga Manacknong, meaning "as far as the place of the bad woods", or Eghquhous, meaning "the bad woods". The region was part of the Lenape homeland known as Lenapehoking.
Burial Ridge, a Lenape burial ground on a bluff overlooking Raritan Bay in what is today the Tottenville section of Staten Island, is the biggest pre-European burial ground in New York City.
The Dutch titled the island Staaten Eylandt (literally "States Island") with respect to the Dutch parliament, which is still known as the Staten-Generaal. The first permanent Dutch settlement of the New Netherland colony was made on Governor's Island in 1624, which they had used as a trading camp for more than a decade before.
At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667, the Dutch ceded New Netherlands colony to England in the Treaty of Breda, and the Dutch Staaten Eylandt, anglicized as "Staten Island", became part of the new English colony of New York.
In 1670, the Native Americans ceded all claims to Staten Island to the English in a deed to Gov.
The following year, he settled on Staten Island, where he was granted a patent for 932 acres (3.8 km2) of land.
Billopp's seamanship secured Staten Island to New York, clean water to New Jersey: the Island would belong to New York if the captain could circumnavigate it in one day, which he did.
As part of this process, Staten Island, as well as a several minor neighboring islands, was designated as Richmond County.
By 1708, the entire island had been divided up in this fashion, creating 166 small farms and two large manorial estates, the Dongan estate and a 1600-acre (6.5 km2) parcel on the southwestern tip of the island belonging to Christopher Billop (Jackson, 1995).
From Halifax, Howe prepared to attack New York City, which then consisted entirely of the southern end of Manhattan Island.
Howe used the strategic locale of Staten Island as a staging ground for the invasion.
Over 140 British ships appeared over the summer of 1776 and anchored off the shores of Staten Island at the entrance to New York Harbor.
In August 1776, the British forces crossed the Narrows to Brooklyn and outflanked the American forces at the Battle of Long Island, resulting in the British control of the harbor and the capture of New York City shortly afterwards.
On August 22, 1777, the Battle of Staten Island occurred here between the British forces and a several companies of the 2nd Canadian Regiment fighting alongside other American companies.
In early 1780, while the Kill Van Kull was frozen solid due to a brutal winter, Lord Stirling led an unsuccessful Patriot raid from New Jersey on the shore of Staten Island.
British forces remained on Staten Island for the remainder of the war.
The British army again used the island as a staging ground for its final evacuation of New York City on December 5, 1783.
Historic Richmond Town exhibition complex is positioned in the heart of Staten Island.
New housing on Staten Island, 1973.
The suburbs 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 period city.
Although merged into the City of Greater New York in 1898, the county sheriff of Staten Island maintained control of the jail system, unlike the other boroughs who had gradually transferred control of the jails to the NYC Department of Corrections.
Years later Staten Island became (and still is) the only borough without a NYC Department of Corrections primary detention center.
The Department of Corrections only maintains court holding jails at the three court buildings on Staten Island for inmates attending court.
The assembly of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, along with the other three primary Staten Island bridges, created a new way for commuters and tourists to travel from New Jersey to Brooklyn, Manhattan, and areas farther east on Long Island.
The network of highways running between the bridges has effectively carved up many of Staten Island's old neighborhoods.
Staten Island's populace doubled from about 221,000 in 1960 to about 443,000 in 2000.
In the 1980s, the United States Navy had a base on Staten Island called Naval Station New York.
1844 Dutch Reformed Church on Staten Island built.
Paul's Memorial Church (Staten Island, New York) built.
Philip's Baptist Church, the first Black church on Staten Island, opens.
1884 Saint George Terminal and Staten Island Academy open.
January 1: Island becomes Borough of Richmond of New York City. 1906 Staten Island Borough Hall built.
1907 Public Museum of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences established. 1926 Staten Island Armory built. Conference House Park established.
1933 Notre Dame College (Staten Island) opens.
1936 Staten Island Zoo opens.
1942 January 1: Staten Island jails transferred from the County Sheriff's Department to the NYC Department of Corrections Staten Island Expressway opens.
John's University Staten Island ground opens.
1976 Arthur Kill Correctional Facility and College of Staten Island established.
Staten Island Children's Museum opens.
1993 November 2: Voters approve secession of Staten Island from New York City. 1999 The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden and College of Staten Island Baseball Complex open.
2017-2019 -now called the "Staten Island Renaissance" - $1.5 Billion invested in assembly in St George and Stapleton- waterfront luxury apartements, new entertainment, 100's of new stores, famous restaurants -Empire Outlets, a 5 star hotel and the worlds biggest ferris wheel New York Wheel 60 stories high are all under construction.
It underlies a portion of northeast Staten Island, with a visible outcropping in the Travis section of Staten Island, off Travis Road in the William T.
This is the same formation which appears in New Jersey and upstate New York along the Hudson River in Palisades Interstate Park.
The sill extends southward beyond the cliffs in Jersey City beneath the Upper New York Harbor and resurfaces on Staten Island.
The evidence of these glacial periods is visible in the remaining wooded areas of Staten Island in the form of glacial erratics and kettle ponds. At the retreat of the ice sheet, Staten Island was connected by territory to Long Island as The Narrows had not yet formed.
Staten Island is geographically a part of New Jersey first settled by New Netherland then by New York. Staten Island is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull.
Staten Island is positioned at the center of New York Bight, a sharp bend in the shoreline between New Jersey and Long Island.
In addition to the chief island, the borough and county also include a several small uninhabited islands: Shooters Island (in Newark Bay; part of it belongs to New Jersey) Swinburne Island (in Lower New York Bay) Hoffman Island (in Lower New York Bay) In the late 1960s the island was the site of meaningful battles of open-space preservation, resulting in the biggest area of parkland in New York City and an extensive Greenbelt that laces the island with woodland trails.
Staten Island is the only borough in New York City that does not share a territory border with another borough (Marble Hill in Manhattan is adjoining with the Bronx).
The borough has a territory border with Elizabeth and Bayonne, New Jersey on uninhabited Shooters Island.
From left to right, as seen from northeastern Staten Island: Jersey City, Statue of Liberty, Lower Manhattan, and Downtown Brooklyn.
Staten Island is home to a large and diverse populace of wildlife.
Wildlife found on Staten Island include white tailed deer, hundreds of species of birds including turkey, hawks, egrets and ring-necked pheasants.
Staten Island includes thousands of acres of federal, state, and small-town park territory including the "greenbelt" and "blue belt" park systems and the Gateway National Recreation Area in addition to hundreds of acres of private wooded areas.
The parks on Staten Island are managed by various state, federal and small-town agencies.
The National Park Service also maintains full-time Wildland Firefighters to patrol the Staten Island sites in wildfire brush trucks.
Two New York State parks are managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation: The 359 acres (145 ha) of NYS Department of Environmental Conservation territory throughout the island are patrolled by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Police officers and one NYS DEC Forest Ranger, who has the dual task of law enforcement and fire suppression.
Union County, New Jersey Hudson County, New Jersey New York County (Manhattan) Richmond County (Staten Island) Staten Island is the only borough with a non-Hispanic White majority.
17.3% of Staten Island's populace was of Hispanic or Latino origin (of any race).
Since the 2000 census, a large Russian improve has been burgeoning on Staten Island, especially in the Rossville, South Beach, and Great Kills area.
There is also a momentous Polish improve mainly in the South Beach and Midland Beach region and there is also a large Sri Lankan improve on Staten Island, concentrated mainly on Victory Boulevard on the northeastern tip of Staten Island towards St.
The Little Sri Lanka in the Tompkinsville neighborhood of Staten Island is one of the biggest Sri Lankan communities outside of the nation of Sri Lanka itself. The borough is also home to a Chinanteco-speaking Mexican American community. The vast majority of the borough's African American and Hispanic inhabitants live north of the Staten Island Expressway, or Interstate 278.
As of 2010, 70.39% (306,310) of Staten Island inhabitants age 5 and older spoke English at home as a major language, while 10.02% (43,587) spoke Spanish, 3.14% (13,665) Russian, 3.11% (13,542) Italian, 2.39% (10,412) Chinese, 1.81% (7,867) other Indo-European languages, 1.38% (5,990) Arabic, 1.01% (4,390) Polish, 0.88% (3,812) Korean, 0.80% (3,500) Tagalog, 0.76% (3,308) other Asian languages, 0.62% (2,717) Urdu, 0.57% (2,479) other Indic languages, and African languages were spoken as a chief language by 0.56% (2,458) of the populace over the age of five.
In total, 29.61% (128,827) of Staten Island's populace age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English. Since New York City's consolidation in 1898, Staten Island has been governed by the New York City Charter that provides for a "strong" mayor-council system.
The centralized New York City government is responsible for enhance education, correctional establishments, libraries, enhance safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, waterworks, and welfare services on Staten Island.
Each borough president had a powerful administrative part derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for territory use.
The Office of Borough President became one focal point for opinions over the Vietnam War when former intelligence agent and peace activist Ed Murphy, ran for office in 1973, sponsored by the Staten Island Democratic Association (SIDA) and was supported by those who exposed Willowbrook, promoted civil rights and community care activists.
In 1989 the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional on the grounds that Brooklyn, the most crowded borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least crowded borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 "one man, one vote" decision. George, Staten Island.
Since 1990 the Borough President has acted as an promote for the borough at the mayoral agencies, the City Council, the New York state government, and corporations.
Staten Island's Borough President is James Oddo, a Republican propel in November 2013 with 69.1% of the vote.
Staten Island's politics differ considerably from those of New York City's other boroughs.
Staten Island is the base of New York City's Republican Party in citywide elections.
Since Green narrowly lost the election citywide, Staten Island provided the margin of Bloomberg's victory.
The chief political divide in the borough is demarcated by the Staten Island Expressway; areas north of the Expressway tend to be more liberal while the south tends to be more conservative.
Two out of Staten Island's three New York City Council members are Republicans, including conservative commentator Joe Borelli.
In nationwide elections Staten Island is not the Republican stronghold it is in small-town elections, but it is also not the Democratic stronghold the rest of New York City is.
Michael Mc - Mahon, a Democrat, is the current District Attorney. Staten Island has three City Council members, two Republicans and one Democrat, the smallest number among the five boroughs.
In the 2009 election for town/city offices, Staten Island propel its first black official, Debi Rose, who defeated the incumbent Democrat in the North Shore town/city council seat in a primary, and then went on to win the general election.
Staten Island has voted for a Democratic presidential nominee only four times since 1952: in 1964, 1996, 2000, and 2012.
Bush received 56% of the vote in Staten Island and Democrat John Kerry received 43%.
This made it the fourth time since 1952 that Democrats have carried Staten Island, and made the borough one of the several parts of the nation where Barack Obama attained an favor compared to 2008. In 2016 Donald Trump carried Staten Island by 15.1%, the biggest margin of any presidential candidate since 1988.
Staten Island lies entirely inside New York's 11th congressional district, which also includes part of southwestern Brooklyn.
The green outline represents the countryside of the borough with white outline denoting the residentiary areas of Staten Island.
Staten Island politics differ considerably from the rest of the city, being far friendlier to the Republicans than other boroughs, although Democrats have a substantial majority in registration.
According to the New York State Board of Elections, as of April 1, 2005, there were 119,601 registered Democrats in Staten Island versus only 82,193 registered Republicans.
Since New York City's consolidation in 1898, Staten Island has been governed by the New York City Charter that provides for a "strong" Mayor-council government.
The centralized New York City government is responsible for enhance education, correctional establishments, libraries, enhance safety, police, fire, recreational facilities, sanitation, transportation, waterworks, and welfare services in Staten Island.
Staten Island representation in the state assembly has 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans.
Staten Island is split between two State Senate Districts.
In nationwide elections, Staten Island is not the Republican stronghold it is in small-town elections.
Bush received 57% of the island's votes to 42% for John Kerry; by contrast, Kerry out-polled Bush in the city's other four boroughs cumulatively by a margin of 77% to 22%. In the 2016 election, Donald Trump won 57% of the island's votes to 40% for Hillary Clinton, with Clinton out-polling Trump in the town/city as a whole by a margin of 79% to 19%. Since reapportionment following the 2010 census, Staten Island has been entirely inside the 11th Congressional District, which also includes a small portion of Brooklyn.
The United States Postal Service operates postal services in Staten Island.
In 2009, Borough President James Molinaro started a program to increase tourism on Staten Island.
The tourism program also includes a "Staten Island Attractions" video that is aired in both the Staten Island and the Manhattan Whitehall ferry terminals, as well as informational kiosks at the terminals, which supply printed knowledge on Staten Island attractions, entertainment and restaurants.
Staten Island is known as the borough of parks because of its various parks, some well known parks are Clove Lakes, Silver Lake, Greenbelt and High Rock.
A great sight to see gorgeous points of Staten Island is Moses mountain which was a mountain where Robert Moses wanted to build a highway through but protests retracted this arrangement and now is a key point of Staten Island for tourists.
George Esplanade, Staten Island.
Artists and musicians have been moving to Staten Island's North Shore so they can be in close adjacency to Manhattan but also have enough affordable space to live and work. Filmmakers, most of whom work autonomously, also play an meaningful part in Staten Island's art scene, which has been recognized by the small-town government.
Staten Island Arts (formerly The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island) is Staten Island's small-town arts council and helps support small-town artists and cultural organizations with regrants, workshops, folklife and arts-in-education programs, and advocacy. Conceived by the Staten Island Economic Development Corporation to introduce autonomous and global films to a broad and diverse audience, the Staten Island Film Festival (SIFF) held its first four-day festival in 2006.
Historic Richmond Town (not to be confused with the town of Richmond, New York) is New York City's living history village and exhibition complex.
Visitors can explore the range of the American experience, especially that of Staten Island and its neighboring communities, from the colonial reconstructionto the present.
The island is home to the Staten Island Zoo, which recently opened a newly refurbished reptile exhibit and is in the process of designing a new carousel and leopard enclosure.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the Alice Austen House Museum, the Conference House, the Garibaldi Meucci Museum, Historic Richmond Town, Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, the Noble Maritime Collection, Sandy Ground Historical Museum, Staten Island Children's Museum, the Staten Island Museum and the Staten Island Botanical Garden, home of The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden can all be found on the island.
The National Lighthouse Museum recently undertook a primary fundraising universal and opened in 2012, and the Staten Island Museum (art, science, and history) plans to open a new branch in Snug Harbor by 2014.
Staten Island's small-town paper is The Staten Island Advance.
SI Parent Magazine, Staten Island's parenting magazine, has been publishing monthly under the parent company, Family Resource Publications, Inc.
The SIParent website siparent.com debuted in 2005 as an interactive tool for parents, followed by civil media and email marketing initiatives: Staten Island Parent on Facebook; Staten Island Parent on Twitter; SI Parent digital issue; Movies filmed partially or wholly on Staten Island include: Staten Island Lois Lowry, the author of The Gossamer and many other books, attended school on Staten Island.
Writer Paul Zindel lived in Staten Island amid his youth and based most of his teenage novels in the island.
Martin based King's Landing on the view of Staten Island from his childhood home in Bayonne, New Jersey. Staten Island also has a small-town music scene.
Musicians who were born or reside on Staten Island and groups that formed on Staten Island are found at List of citizens from Staten Island.
Jersey Shore was filmed in part of Staten Island in beginnings of seasons.
Time Warner Cable's news channel NY1 airs a weekly show called This Week on Staten Island, hosted by Anthony Pascale.
The periodical style show takes content from NY1's daily/hourly newscasts called "Your Staten Island News Now".
The documentary, A Walk Around Staten Island with David Hartman and Barry Lewis, premiered on enhance tv station WNET on December 3, 2007, profiling Staten Island culture and history, including primary attractions such as the Staten Island Ferry, Historic Richmondtown, the Conference House, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the Chinese Scholars Garden and many more sites. Additional tv series shot partially or wholly on Staten Island include Big Ang, The Book of Daniel, The Education of Max Bickford, Staten Island Law, Staten Island Cakes, Mob Wives, and as well as parts of many episodes of Blue Bloods, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit with the only Law & Order TV film, Exiled (starring Chris Noth).
The sitcom Grounded for Life was set on Staten Island, while in the animated Godzilla: The Series, the Humanitarian Environmental Analysis Team (HEAT) which monitors Godzilla has their command posts based on Staten Island in an old ferry terminal.
Will & Grace episode 3 of series 8 The Old Man Of The Sea, was set in Staten Island.
Was filmed on Staten Island and featured the Staten Island Ferry "Girls" "Season 2" Episode 6 "Boys" was filmed in Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan, Staten Island Ferry, Nicolas Street in St.
George, Hamilton and Westervelt Avenue, and the final scenes taking place on Carroll Place all on the North Shore of Staten Island.
Tennis is said to have made its debut in the United States of America on Staten Island in New York State.
Tennis was introduced in Staten Island by Mary Ewing Outerbridge. Staten Island Yankees, New York Penn League baseball, Class A Minor League partner to the New York Yankees The New York Cosmos u23, part of the USL Premier Development League (PDL), call Staten Island home.
The New York Metropolitans of the American Association played baseball on Staten Island from April 1886 through 1887.
George, brought the team to Staten Island where they played in a stadium called the St.
George Grounds, near the site of the current-day Staten Island Yankees' Richmond County Bank Ballpark and the Staten Island Ferry terminal.
Former New York Giants head coach Jim Lee Howell had been head coach of Staten Island's Wagner College Football Staten Island formerly had a National Football League team, the Stapletons.
The New York Predators of the semi-pro Regional American Football League have called Staten Island home since their inception in 1998.
In 1964 Staten Island's Mid Island Little League won the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
The Staten Island Cricket Club, incorporated in 1866, is the earliest continuously operating cricket club in the United States. See also: Education in New York City and List of high schools in New York City Education in Staten Island is provided by a number of enhance and private establishments.
Public schools in the borough are managed by the New York City Department of Education, the biggest enhance school fitness in the United States.
College of Staten Island High School for International Studies Staten Island Technical High School Staten Island Academy is the only autonomous private (non-public, non-religious) undertaking school on the island and is one of the earliest in the entire country.
The College of Staten Island is one of the eleven senior universities of the City University of New York (CUNY).
The College of Staten Island also offers post-graduate level study from master's to doctoral level study.
John's University has a ground on Staten Island.
The Staten Island Ferry provides travel between lower Manhattan and the St.
Staten Island is connected to New Jersey via three vehicular bridges and one barns bridge.
The Outerbridge Crossing to Perth Amboy, New Jersey is at the southern end of Route 440 and the Bayonne Bridge to Bayonne, New Jersey is at the northern end of Route 440, which continues into Jersey City, New Jersey.
From the New Jersey Turnpike, the Goethals Bridge using I-278 joins from Elizabeth, New Jersey to the Staten Island Expressway.
The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge carries freight between the northwest part of the island and Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Staten Island is connected to Brooklyn via the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge using I-278 (the Staten Island Expressway).
The only pedestrian link to Staten Island is via a footpath on the Bayonne Bridge.
Unlike the other four boroughs, but like many suburbs, Staten Island has no large, numbered grid system.
Staten Island was, at one point, concurrently home to the longest vertical lift bridge, steel arch bridge, and suspension bridge in the world; the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge, Bayonne Bridge, and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, in the order given.
Staten Island has more cars per capita than any other borough in New York City, with car ownership attained by 81.6% of all Staten Island homeholds.
New York City Department of Transportation (Staten Island Ferry) MTA Regional Bus Operations (local service on Staten Island and express service to Manhattan) Staten Island Railway service from St.
Main article: Staten Island Ferry The Staten Island Ferry is the only direct transit network from Staten Island to Manhattan, roughly a 25-minute trip. The St.
The Staten Island Ferry had undergone ramp renovations which were instead of in 2014.
The Staten Island Ferry transports over 60,000 passengers per day.
Main article: Staten Island Railway The Staten Island Railway operates along the Richmond/Amboy Roads corridor.
The Staten Island Railway traverses the island 24/7 from its northeastern tip to its southwestern tip.
The Staten Island Railway opened on April 23, 1860 and was owned and directed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) until July 1, 1971 when the line was bought by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The Staten Island Railway continued to have its own stockyards police, the Staten Island Rapid Transit Police until 2005 when the 25 officer law enforcement was merged into the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police.
Staten Island is the only borough not served by the New York City Subway, as the Staten Island Tunnel was abandoned in the middle of assembly in the 1920s.
As such, express bus service is provided by NYC Transit throughout Staten Island to Lower and Midtown Manhattan.
A five-mile right of way exists along the north shore of Staten Island.
There have been proposals to revive the abandoned North Shore Branch of the Staten Island Railway for passenger service as a rail line or for use as Bus Rapid Transit. There is also a proposal to build a West Shore Light Rail in the center of the Dr.
Martin Luther King Expressway, Staten Island Expressway, and West Shore Expressway, closing to Richmond Valley, Staten Island to connect with the chief line of the Staten Island Railway.
The South Beach Branch, which transported summer vacationers to South Beach, Staten Island, also ceased service on March 31, 1953. Further information: List of bus routes in Staten Island and List of express bus routes in New York City Manhattan to Staten Island MTA Regional Bus Operations provides small-town and limited bus service with over 30 lines throughout Staten Island.
The S79 SBS is the first Select Bus Service route in the borough, although it does not feature off-board fare payment characteristic of other Select Bus Service lines. Beginning September 4, 2007, the MTA began offering bus service from Staten Island to Bayonne, New Jersey, over the Bayonne Bridge via the S89 limited-stop bus, allowing passengers to connect to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail's 34th Street Station, giving Staten Island inhabitants a new route into Manhattan.
It is prominently, despite Staten Island's adjacency to New Jersey, the only route directly into New Jersey from Staten Island via enhance transportation.
CSX operates a class I short line freight rail service via the Travis Branch with a 38 acres (15 ha) intermodal on-dock rail facility on the southern end of Staten Island which joins to the National Rail System via the Arthur Kill Rail Bridge to New Jersey.
In addition to the intermodal on-dock rail yard, the CSX Staten Island Rail line also joins to the Sanitation departments waste transfer station.
Staten Island is the only borough without a hospital directed by New York City.
Staten Island is the only borough without a New York City Department of Corrections primary detention center.
The Department of Corrections only maintains court holding jails at the three court buildings on Staten Island for inmates attending court.
The various police agencies on Staten Island maintain in-house holding jails for post arrest detention before to transfer to a corrections jail in another borough.
The Staten Island county sheriff directed a jail fitness on Staten Island until January 1, 1942, when the Staten Island jail fitness was transferred from the county sheriff's department to the New York City Department of Corrections and eventually closed.
In 1976, the New York State Department of Correctional Services opened the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility of Staten Island, but the facility was closed in 2011.
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