Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island, gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets.

Sydney Le Blanc, age 15, Staten Island, N.Y., showing a Doberman Pinscher, was 2nd.

The skyline, the bridges, Broadway, and the Staten Island ferry are only a few of the spots to put on your `` must '' list for New York City.

A Colombian female's brood of sixteen boa constrictors born in the Staten Island Zoo averaged 20 inches.

The 300th anniversaries of Staten Island ( through Sept. 23 ) and of Mamaroneck, N.Y. ( through Sept. 24 ) will both include parades and pageants.

* Atlantic ( Staten Island Railway station )

* 718: 958 Bronx / Brooklyn / Queens / Staten Island, NY

" Another song, " Manhattan " ( by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1925 musical " Garrick Gaieties "), declares " We'll have Manhattan ,/ The Bronx and Staten / Island too ./ It's lovely going through / the zoo.

The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using 1. 2 million cubic yards ( 917, 000 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of soil and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.

* Charleston, Staten Island, in New York City

In 1961, the New York State Legislature established the City University of New York, uniting what had become seven municipal colleges at the time: The City College of New York, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Staten Island Community College, Bronx Community College and Queensborough Community College.

*( 1955 ) College of Staten Island

They currently study at one of the participating senior CUNY colleges ( Queens, Hunter, Staten Island, Lehman, Baruch, Brooklyn, and City ), as well as taking part in cross-campus activities and programs.

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* 1960 – 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York's Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.

On May 3, 1778 he was transferred to Staten Island.

When the Province of New Jersey was separated from the Province of New York in 1674, it was argued that Staten Island belonged to the former.

After the British occupation of New York City, spies were sent to Staten Island and Long Island, New York to observe and report on movements of specific British garrisons and regiments.

* On Staten Island, Masonic lodge # 1130 at 236 Main Street is named after him.

* 1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.

* 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfields boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

He resides and works in Staten Island, New York.

Staten Island, New York: Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., 2006.

In 1935, Socony Vacuum Oil opened the huge Mammoth Oil Port on Staten Island which had a capacity of handling a quarter of million gallons of petroleum products a year and could transship oil from ocean going tankers and river barges

The competing ferry services that were all finally controlled by Vanderbilt were sold to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and operated by the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad ( SIRT, predecessor to Staten Island Railway ) in 1884.

* Staten Island Railway, a rapid transit line in Staten Island ( operated by the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority, a NYCTA subsidiary )

In 1880, the Staten Island Rapid Transit ( SIRT ) was incorporated and it leased the Staten Island Railway in 1884.

Starting in the 1880s Erastus Wiman rose to the leadership of the company and in a reorganization he renamed the company the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad Company in the 1880s.

Staten Island Rapid Transit, 1952

In 1971 the passenger operations of the former Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company, which had absorbed lessor Staten Island Railway Company in 1944, were acquired from its parent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company was renamed Staten Island Railroad Corporation, which still exists as a subsidiary of the CSX Corporation.

The MTA created a subsidiary, the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority, for the purposes of operation and maintenance.

* MTA Staten Island Railway ( SIR ) ( legal name-no longer used publicly: Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority )

Railroad companies in bankruptcy sometimes retained their name in reorganization but changed railroad to railway or vice versa ; e. g., Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad changed to Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway.

Employees of the New York City Transit Authority assigned to the New York City Subway and in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx are members of the Transport Workers Union of America Local 100, with Queens and Staten Island bus personnel represented by various Amalgamated Transit Union locals.

MetroCard Vending Machines ( MVMs ) are machines located in all subway stations, the Staten Island Ferry terminals, the Roosevelt Island Tramway station, the Hempstead Transit Center at the Hempstead ( LIRR station ), Eltingville Transit Center, just inside the Central Terminal at LaGuardia Airport, at the Howard Beach and Jamaica AirTrain terminals near John F. Kennedy International Airport, and the NYC Visitors Center on 7 Avenue & 53 Street.

The Port Authority also operates Hudson River crossings, including the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, and George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey with Manhattan, and three crossings that connect New Jersey with Staten Island.

Other facilities managed by the Port Authority include the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, and the Holland Tunnel, which all connect Manhattan and Northern New Jersey ; the Goethals Bridge, the Bayonne Bridge, and the Outerbridge Crossing which connect Staten Island and New Jersey.

The Port Authority also participates in joint development ventures around the region, including The Teleport communications center on Staten Island, Bathgate Industrial Park in The Bronx, the Essex County Resource Recovery Facility, Newark Legal Center, Queens West in Long Island City, NY, and The South Waterfront in Hoboken.

The bridge was named for Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge The first chairman of the then-Port of New York Authority and a resident of Staten Island.

It wasn ’ t until the first years of the 1960s, though, that then Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Chairman, Robert Moses, revealed plans for a parkway that would connect Brooklyn with New Jersey, traversing the island from the soon to be opened Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on the island ’ s north shore to the Outerbridge Crossing on the southern shore of Staten Island.

It is the largest New York City Housing Authority project on Staten Island.

During the 1920s, the Newhouse family loaned money to Henry Garfinkle, which enabled him to open newsstands that increased sales of the Newhouse family's Staten Island Advance at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island, and later opened newsstands throughout Manhattan, as well as LaGuardia Airport, Newark Airport, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal ( the world's largest and most lucrative newsstand ).

On May 29, the Staten Island Republican Party endorsed Frank Powers, a member of the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority who has never held elective office but who promised to spend $ 500, 000 of his own money on the race.

Staten Island in general, and New Springville specifically, have very little representation on the Board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( New York ).