Staten Island: Quick Facts

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Appeals court tosses lawsuit over Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout, ruling homeowners can’t sue over notices • Nov. 4, 2026, 5:48 PM ET (Fortune)

4-alarm fire tears through vacant Staten Island warehouse, FDNY says • Oct. 17, 2026, 9:49 PM ET (CBS)

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Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

Vintage map detail of Staten Island, labeled as Richmond, from around 1900. The map shows neighborhoods, roads, and rail lines on Staten Island, with surrounding waterways like Lower New York Bay and nearby parts of New Jersey and Brooklyn also visible.

Detailed map of New York City and its metropolitan area, showing boroughs including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as well as surrounding cities in New Jersey and New York. The map highlights major roads, railroads, ferries, airports, parks, greenbelts, and points of interest such as Central Park, Yankee Stadium, and Liberty State Park, along with county and state boundaries.

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Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London, England. Opened in 1894. Remains an Important Traffic Route with 40,000 Crossings Every Day.

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Island, New Caledonia.

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