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Of the five boroughs of New York City, Staten Island has the smallest population and is ... the most suburban. Many residents commute to work in the other boroughs or in New Jersey; of those employed on Staten Island, most are in service industries. Located here are Wagner College (1883); the College of Staten Island (1955), part of the City University of New York; and a campus of Saint John's University of Jamaica, Queens. Points of interest include the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, a National Historic Landmark district located within 34 ha (83 acres) of the former Sailors' Snug Harbor (founded 1833), the first maritime home and hospital for retired seamen in the country. The Cultural Center, which opened in 1976, contains 26 historic restored buildings of Greek Revival, Beaux Arts, Italianate and Victorian styles that serve as a center for the visual and performing arts. Historic Richmond Town, the borough's historic village and museum, was begun in the 1950s and is operated by the Staten Island Historical Society (1856).
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Staten Island's politics differ considerably from New York City's other boroughs. Although in 2005 44.7% of the borough's registered voters were registered Democrats and 30.6% were registered Republicans, the Republican Party holds a small majority of local public offices. Staten Island is the base of New York City's Republican Party in citywide elections. In the 2001 mayoral election, borough voters chose Republican Michael Bloomberg, with 75.87% of the vote, over Democrat Mark Green, with 21.15% of the vote. Since Green narrowly lost the election citywide, Staten Island provided the margin of Bloomberg's victory. The main political divide in the borough is demarcated by the Staten Island Expressway; areas north of the Expressway tend to be more liberal while the south tends to be more conservative.
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Staten Island is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull. It is connected to New Jersey via the Bayonne Bridge, the Outerbridge Crossing, the Goethals Bridge, and to Brooklyn by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. The Staten Island Ferry connects the island to lower Manhattan. The Staten Island Railway traverses the island from its northeastern tip to its southwestern tip. Staten Island is the only borough in New York City that does not share a land border with another borough (Marble Hill in Manhattan is contiguous with the Bronx).
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As an island, Staten Island was formed in the wake of the last ice age. In the late Pleistocene between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago, the ice sheet that covered northeastern North America reached as far south as present day New York City, to a depth of approximately the same height as the Empire State Building. At one point, during its maximum reach, the ice sheet precisely ended at the center of present day Staten Island, forming a terminal moraine on the existing diabase sill. The central moraine of the island is sometimes called the Serpentine ridge because it contains large amounts of that particular mineral.
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Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is made up of nearly five hundred thousand people. Of those five hundrerd thousand people, about forty-five percent of them are Italian. It is often called "Staten Italy" because of its large italian demographic.
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"Staten Island is an island not only geographically, but in spirit as well," said Hartman. "It is the least densely populated of New York City's five boroughs, arguably the greenest, and politically independent. But viewers will likely be impressed by Staten Island's diversity, rich history and numerous cultural attractions."
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