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Aug 30, 2023 · For nearly 200 years, New Jersey and New York City bickered over ownership of Staten Island, with The Garden State claiming it had rightful ownership given the island’s proximity. Staten ...
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America knows Staten Island for two reasons: For being the Planet of the Guidos that spawned three Jersey Shorecast members, and for being the place where mobsters historically hung their hats. Stereotypes aside, Staten Island has proportionally more Italian-Americans than anywhere else in New York state, and there’s a reason for that: When white f...
When New York City opened the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island in 1947, the city government originally intended it to be a temporary measure. Instead, it grew into a literal mountain of trash over the ensuing decades and turned Staten Island into New York City’s dumping ground. City sanitation workers layered garbage on top of ash on top of tr...
Despite the distorted perspective New York City’s iconic subway map, featured above, presents, Staten Island is three times larger than Manhattan. The city’s forgotten backyard for centuries, Staten Island looks small on the map because no one pays any mind to it. Consider the graph below, which shows the number of times novelists have mentioned Ne...
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The prehistory and history of Kentucky span thousands of years, and have been influenced by the state's diverse geography and central location. Archaeological evidence of human occupation in Kentucky begins approximately 9,500 BCE. A gradual transition began from a hunter-gatherer economy to agriculture c. 1800 BCE.
Staten Island ( / ˈstætən / STAT-ən) is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southern most point of New York. The borough is separated from the adjacent state of New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull and from the rest of New York by New York Bay.
Aug 14, 2017 · How Staten Island became a part of NYC – despite nearly joining New Jersey ... and Staten Island had become part of the new English regime’s Yorkshire, which also included Westchester and Long ...
Oct 9, 2018 · It wasn’t until the English took over in 1667 that the name was anglicized to Staten Island, as we know it today. The borough played an important role in the American Revolution as a strategic location for British troops and it even hosted its own battle, The Battle of Staten Island, in 1777.
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May 9, 2019 · Initially, the state of Kentucky was part of Virginia and in 1792 Kentucky was admitted to the Union as the 15th state in the country. Presently, the state of Kentucky is the 37th largest state by land area. The state has been nicknamed the Bluegrass State which was derived from a huge expanse of pastures as a result of the fertile soils within ...
