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| | Harbor Island |
 | | The neighborhood owes its name to the fact that, during the 19th Century, oysters and other seafood products were harvested at the site from the Kill Van Kull, which forms the neighborhood's northern border (Elm Park and Port Ivory lie to the east and west, respectively, while Graniteville is to the south). |
| | The neighborhood was permanently transformed, however, in the late 1940s, when the New York City Housing Authority erected a public housing project in the heart of the community, which then soon became predominantly African-American and later, also Hispanic. |
| | This housing development, like many others on Staten Island and for that matter, citywide and even nationwide, was hit hard by the crack cocaine epidemic which began in the mid-1980s; this further increased the area's crime rate, which had been high since the mid-1960s. |
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