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Lecture | The Forgotten Borough: Staten Island in New York City, 1898-1964

Friday, November 22, 2013, 1:15 pm

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Staten Island was not always an anomaly among the boroughs, different and often forgotten. When Greater New York was created in 1898, some of the most enthusiastic support came from what would become the Borough of Richmond, which voted nearly 4-1 in favor of consolidation. Though wary of being enveloped by their giant neighbors, many Staten Islanders expressed great optimism for an expected boost in public services and infrastructure, which they predicted would lead to commercial, industrial and residential growth. Perhaps more than anything, they looked for a direct physical link with the rest of the city through its incipient subway system, which opened in 1904.

However, the honeymoon was brief. What followed over the next four decades was constant frustration as Staten Island was repeatedly excluded from each expansion of the subway system. Its long physical isolation from the rest of the city played no small part in its following a distinct development pattern among the five boroughs.

Speaker Kenneth Gold, a writer in residence in the Library’s Wertheim Study, is the Dean of Education at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, CUNY.

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