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	Staten Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island was probably abandoned later, possibly because of the extinction of large mammals on the island.
		Staten Island is mentioned frequently in the lyrics of rap artists Wu-Tang Clan, most of whom were born in the borough which they refer to as Shaolin, Shaolin Island, and sometimes Gattin' Island.
		Staten Island is home to a surprising variety of museums: the Alice Austen House Museum, the Conference House, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Historic Richmond Town, Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, the John Noble Collection, Sandy Ground Historical Museum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the Staten Island Children's Museum, and the Staten Island Museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Staten_Island (4152 words)

	Staten Island Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Staten Island Railway (SIR, formerly SIRT) is a rapid transit line operating in the Borough of Staten Island, New York City, USA.
		The main terminus is the Staten Island Ferry terminal in the St. George neighborhod of Staten Island, which allows Islanders to travel by ferry to Manhattan.
		Officially the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (SIRTOA), and publically styled as MTA Staten Island Railway, the SIR is a direct subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Staten_Island_Railway (982 words)

	Staten Island Ferry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Staten Island Ferry is a passenger ferry operated by the New York City Department of Transportation between Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan near Battery Park (South Ferry) and St.
		The route of the Staten Island Ferry across Upper New York Bay is shown in yellow on a TERRA satellite photo of New York City.
		The opening of the Staten Island Railway in 1860 increased traffic further and newer boats were acquired, named after the towns of Richmond County which covered the whole of Staten Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Staten_Island_Ferry (2118 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Staten Island
		The bedrock of the island is a diabase sill formed during the volcanic eruptions that created much of the bedrock of northern New Jersey, including the Palisades, approximately 200 million years ago.
		The congressional district which includes Staten Island has been in Republican hands since 1981 and is currently represented by Vito Fossella, elected in a 1997 special election to replace Susan Molinari.
		George Pataki received a majority of Staten Island's votes in the 2002 gubernatorial election, and Michael Bloomberg overwhelmingly carried the island in the mayoral election of 2001 (84,891 to 23,664).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Staten_Island (2595 words)

	Nearby Café: Island Living A. D. Coleman Staten Island
		Staten Islanders often own cars; it's a big place (almost three times the size of Manhattan), parking is rarely a problem anywhere, and the city's bus and elevated-train service here remains somewhat erratic (though improving).
		Staten Island Botanical Gardens - Not to be missed while at the Harbor are the Staten Island Botanical Gardens, which lie within Snug Harbor's 83 acres.
		Staten Island remains by far the greenest of the boroughs: 9300 acres of federal, state, and city parkland (roughly 25 percent of landmass), with 2800 of those in the Greenbelt, a mix of parks and nature preserves.
	www.nearbycafe.com /foodandtravel/island/travel.html (1969 words)

	STATEN ISLAND - LoveToKnow Article on STATEN ISLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is separated from Long Island on E. by the Narrows which connect Upper and Lower New YOrk Bay; from New Jersey on the N. by the narrow channel of Kill van Kull which connects New York Bay with Newark Bay; and from New Jersey on.
		Staten Island i~ connected by ferry with the borough of Manhattan, 5 m.
		The British army under Sir William Howe landed at the Narrows on the 3rd of July 1777 and until the close of the war Staten Island was held by the British and Loyalists.
	www.1911ency.org /S/ST/STATEN_ISLAND.htm (902 words)

	Staten Island Rapid Transit by Irvin Leigh & Paul Matus -The Third Rail Online - January 2002
		The county consists of Staten Island, a geographically large part of the expanded city, but separated from the greater municipality by The Narrows, the deep-water strait leading to Upper New York Harbor, as well as by culture and tradition.
		At the beginning of the 20th Century elevated railways operated in parts of four of the five boroughs and the City began to build its now-famous subway system, the public work that many local visionaries saw as the glue that would bind the larger city together.
		In 1971, the railway nominally joined the rest of the larger city's rails when the remaining passenger operation, from the St. George ferry terminal to Tottenville at the island's tip, was taken over by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, by then parent agency of the city's subways.
	rapidtransit.com /net/thirdrail/0201/sirt1.html (487 words)

	New York City's Staten Island Ferry pictures and panorama
		As you near Staten Island you may glimpse the open ocean through the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, though you will not be very close to the bridge.
		The Staten Island Terminal is served by the Staten Island Railway and numerous bus routes.
		The first of the new Staten Island Ferry boats — all of which were constructed at the Marinette Marine Corporation shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin — was named after former Staten Island Borough President, member of the house of Representatives and State Assemblyman Guy V. Molinari.
	www.inetours.com /New_York/Pages/Staten_Island_Ferry.html (814 words)

	ipedia.com: Staten Island Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For other uses, see Staten Island Staten Island is both the name of an island on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor as well as the name of the one of the five boroughs of...
		Staten Island is both the name of an island on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor as well as the name of the one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States.
		Although the first Dutch settlement of the New Netherlands colony was made on Manhattan in 1620, Staten Island remained uncolonized by the Dutch for many decades.
	www.ipedia.com /staten_island.html (1801 words)

	NYCDOT - Staten Island Ferry Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In response to the current disruption to Staten Island Ferry service, the New York City Office of Emergency Management, in coordination with the Department of Transportation, the Police Department and MTA/NYC Transit, is implementing an emergency plan to provide alternative transportation service to inconvenienced ferry passengers.
		Ferry customers bound from Manhattan to Staten Island are advised to take the Brooklyn-bound R subway from Whitehall Street to one of two stations in Brooklyn where NYCT buses will be available.
		Staten Island Railroad passengers are advised that all trains will stop at Grasmere station where they can make a free transfer to the S53.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dot/html/masstran/ferries/statfery.html (2443 words)

	The Real Deal - Staten Island: An offer more buyers can't refuse
		The borough president of Staten Island is pondering the children - future and current - of Staten Island's newer residents, mostly young adults who moved to the borough for a variety of reasons.
		Staten Islanders, for one thing, drive more than average New Yorkers - more than eight in 10 households there own a car, and as many as 41 percent own at least two, according to the deputy comptroller's office.
		Which is precisely why Staten Island seems a running joke among residents of other boroughs - the commute to and from it, either by ferry or by bridge, and getting around once inside it.
	www.therealdeal.net /issues/JANUARY_2006/1136400380.php (1384 words)

	Staten Island Railway at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Staten Island Railway (SIR) or Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) is a rapid transit line operating in the Borough of Staten Island, New York City.
		Officially the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (SIRTOA), the SIR is a direct subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) (MTA).
		SIRTOA operates and maintains the commuter rail line on Staten Island pursuant to a lease and operating agreement with the City of New York.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Staten_Island_Railway.html (552 words)

	Staten Island Rapid Transit by Irvin Leigh & Paul Matus - Page 8
		The BRT was an amalgam of rapid transit and trolley railways of which some were owned and others were leased.
		Though the idea of a connection between the BRT and the SIRT was studied and mapped as part of the Dual Contracts, it was specifically disavowed as being a funded part of the Contracts.
		Still this seemed to be but a bump on the road to direct rapid transit access to Staten Island from the rest of the City.
	www.thethirdrail.net /0201/sirt8.html (365 words)

	Staten Island Museum - Visit Us
		The museum is located at 75 Stuyvesant Place at the corner of Wall Street, just two blocks from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
		The Staten Island Terminal is served by the Staten Island Railway and the S40, S42, S44, S46, S48, S51, S52, S61, S62, S66, S67, S74, S76, S78, S90, S91, S92, S94, S96 and S98 bus routes.
		Visitors from Manhattan take the Staten Island Ferry from the Whitehall Terminal/South Ferry, which is a short walking distance from the 1, 9, 4, 5, N, R subway lines as well as the M1, M6 and M15 bus lines, to the Staten Island Terminal.
	www.statenislandmuseum.org /visitus.html (390 words)

	AppleFest 2003: Parts 5 & 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Staten Island Ferry has been a New York City institution for years, and it has survived despite the opening of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge almost 40 years ago, and the removal of fares in mid-1997.
		Staten Island is by far the most rural of the five boroughs, so don't expect to see tall buildings ahead of us as we get closer to our destination.
		George Terminal is the transportation hub of Staten Island.
	pages.prodigy.net /kevinkorell/applefest2003/part5-8.htm (524 words)

	statenalley
		Rosebank, a neighborhood in Staten Island's southeast section, is in the shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, is one of Staten's older neighborhoods and contains many one-block lanes.
		In fact, most of Staten Island by now has been thoroughly suburbanized and landscaped, with regular, rigid street patterns imposed, especially in the southern sections of the island.
		Nestled along the series of high hills that runs through Staten Island's midsection (called Ward Hill, Grymes Hill, Dongan Hills and the tallest, Todt Hill), Hygeia Place is one of two streets in Staten Island named for a Greek goddess.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /Alleys/statenalleys/statenalley.html (1134 words)

	Staten Island Railway
		During the summer baseball season, when the Staten Island Yankees minor league baseball team is playing at Richmond County Ballpark stadium, a single train originates from Tottenville, makes all stops to Tompkinsville, and then diverts to the new Ballpark station in front of the stadium entrance.
		At the St. George terminal, the schedules are coordinated with the arrival and departures of the Staten Island Ferry, most trains arrive 5 to 7 minutes before a boat departs.
		The Staten Island Railway’s original name was Staten Island Rapid Transit, and was along from the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company that assumed ownership of the RR and inaugurated the first train from Tottenville to Tompkinsville on 7/31/1884.
	www.stationreporter.net /sir.htm (4143 words)

	Staten Island Bancorp News
		Staten Island Bancorp News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Two new works, two retooled pieces and live music are on the Staten Island Ballet's dance card this weekend at the College of Staten Island.
		Yes, as in the former garbage dump on Staten Island - the one that became known as one of the largest man-made structures visible from space and, much closer to home, the smelliest place in the city.
	www.topix.net /com/sib (335 words)

	The Center for International Service - College of Staten Island
		Staten Island Ferry Terminal is located across the street.
		The Staten Island Ferry currently carries over 19 million passengers annually on a 5.2-mile run between the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island and the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in South Street lower Manhattan.
		Traveling westbound on the Staten Island Expressway (Interstate 278) from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (either level of the bridge is fine), take Victory Boulevard Exit 10.
	www.csi.cuny.edu /international/directions_links.html (1656 words)

	SIRT: Staten Island Rapid Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The operation of the original Staten Island Railroad was from Cranford Junction, NJ to St. George, Staten Island via the North Shore line, and then on to Tottenville or South Beach.
		(Freight service on the island ended in 1990 when the Port Ivory Proctor and Gamble plant shut down in 1990.) A contract was recently let to rehabilitatate the electrical and control systems of the AK lift bridge across the Arthur Kill, the longest vertical lift-span bridge in the world.
		Just past the south end of the station, there is a spur that formerly served the press building of the Staten Island Advance (the last 'boro daily' in the city) and is now used as a storage spur for ballast cars.
	www.nycsubway.org /us/sirt (2775 words)

	Staten Island @ BasketballLiving.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Staten Island man stopped for speeding in Bayonne Thursday night found himself in even more trouble when he gave police a New York license that belonged to his twin brother, police said.
		Staten Island, NY (PRWEB) April 8, 2006 -- Hauling beach umbrellas, beach chairs, sunscreen lotion, towels, snacks, and other supplies to the beach can be a time-consuming struggle.
		I was working for The Staten Island Advance at the time, and, in addition to covering education, I had an opportunity to write a weekly music column.
	www.basketballliving.com /allabout/Staten_Island (430 words)

	UTU: News
		That is what Staten Island Borough President James P. Molinaro says about the 12-mile-long Staten Island Railway, the borough's only train line, according to a report by Jim O'Grady that appeared in the New York Times.
		He says service on the line, which has 22 stops and runs from Tottenville on the island's southern tip to the St. George Ferry Terminal in the north, is good.
		If the Staten Island Railway were placed with the railroads, Mr.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=5401 (435 words)

	Staten Island Ferry - Big Apple Visitors Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Staten Island Ferry began service in 1905, and currently carries over 19 million passengers annually on a 5.2-mile run between the St. George Terminal in Staten Island and the Whitehall Terminal in lower Manhattan.
		Staten Island bus map lists bus and Staten Island Railway directions to places of interest and which ramp to use for departing buses.
		The St. George Terminal is served by the Staten Island Railway and the S40, S42, S44, S46, S48, S51, S52, S61, S62, S66, S67, S74, S76, S78, S90, S91, S92, S94, S96 and S98 bus routes.
	www.bigapplevisitorscenter.com /pisif.htm (272 words)

	Staten Island Museum - Archives Research Opportunities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Research the history of Staten Island and its people at the History Archives and Library of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences.
		The Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences is located at 75 Stuyvesant Place in the St. George section of Staten Island.
		It is readily accessible by the Staten Island Ferry, local buses, and the Staten Island Railway.
	www.statenislandmuseum.org /archresearchopp.html (300 words)

	UTU: News
		With 465,000 residents, Staten Island has only 6 percent of the city's population, but it is expected to add 20,000 in the next five years.
		Peters, an economist, said that Staten Island was essential to the city's continued growth.
		Bloomberg, a Republican who received significant support from Staten Island voters during his mayoral campaigns, an opportunity to surround himself with other Republican politicians during a news conference at the Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home, a former tuberculosis sanitarium that now treats patients with Alzheimer's disease, dementia and brain injuries.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=27221 (738 words)

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