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Community Information
Community Board
Staten Island Community Board #1
One Edgewater Plaza
Room 217
Staten Island, NY 10305
Phone: 718-981-6900
Fax: 718-720-1342
Email: sicb1@si.rr.com
Web site: http://www.nyc.gov/sicb1
District Manager: Joseph Carroll
Elected Officials
Council District #49
Deborah Rose
130 Stuyvesant Place
6th Floor
Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: 718-556-7370
Fax: 718-556-7389
Web site: http://council.nyc.gov/d49/html/members/home.shtml
State Assembly District #61
Matthew Titone
853 Forest Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10310
Phone: 718-442-9932
Email: TitoneM@assembly.state.ny.us
Web site: http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=061
State Senate District #23
Diane J. Savino (Democrat)
36 Richmond Terrace
1st Floor
Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: 718-727-9406
Fax: 718-727-9426
Email: savino@senate.state.ny.us
Web site: http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/diane-j-savino
Congressional District #11
Michael Grimm (Democrat)
265 New Dorp Lane
Second Floor
Staten Island, NY 10306
Phone: 718-351-1062
Fax: 718-980-0768
Web site: http://grimm.house.gov/
Demographic Information
|
Population Characteristics - 2000
|
Number
|
Percent
|
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 162,609 | 100 |
| White | 81,264 | 50.0 |
| Black | 35,189 | 21.6 |
| Hispanic origin or descent | 32,192 | 19.8 |
| [Puerto Rican] | [16,797] | [10.3] |
| [Other Hispanic] | [15,395] | [9.5] |
| Asian & Pacific Islander | 8,546 | 5.3 |
| [Chinese] | [2,537] | [1.6] |
| [Asian Indian] | [2,268] | [1.4] |
| [Korean] | [578] | [0.4] |
| [Filipino] | [1,823] | [1.1] |
| American Indian | 351 | 0.2 |
| Other non-hispanic | 5,067 | 3.1 |
| Groups between brackets [ ] signify a subset of the main group above. | ||
|
Income Statistics - 1990
|
Persons 25 Years of Age and Older - 1990
|
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Family Income | $44,010 | Total | 89,286 |
| Per Capita Income | $15,921 | Number of High School Graduates | 68,081 |
| Number of College Graduates | 18,723 | ||
|
Language Spoken at Home - 1990
|
|
|---|---|
| Speaks a Language Other Than English | 26,325 |
| Speaks Spanish | 11,839 |
| Speaks Asian or Pacific Islander | 2,935 |
Local Information
Fire
Engine 156
412 Broadway (between Delafield Avenue and Seneca Street) 10310
Ladder 79
1189 Castleton Avenue (between Roe and Barker Streets) 10310
Police
120th Precinct
78 Richmond Terrace 10301
718-876-8500
Local Hospitals
Richmond University Medical Center
355 Bard Avenue 10310
718-876-1234
Staten Island University Hospital North
475 Seaview Avenue 10305
718-266-9000
Parks and Playgrounds
Clove Lakes Park
Slossen, Victory Boulevard, Clove Road
Sailors Snug Harbor (Snug Harbor Cultural Center)
1000 Richmond Terrace
Richmond Terrace, Tysen Street, Kissel Avenue 10301
718-448-2500
West Brighton Pool
Broadway, Henderson Avenue
718-390-8000
Lawrence C. Thompson Memorial Park
Broadway, Henderson Avenue
Staten Island Zoo
614 Broadway 10310
718-442-3101
Post Office
General Post Office
550 Manor Road 10314
718-816-2700
West New Brighton Station
1015 Castleton Avenue 10301
718-442-0565
Schools: District 31
P.S. 18 John Greenleaf Whittier School
P.S. 19 The Curtis School
P.S. 45 John Tyler School
I.S. 27 Anning S. Prall School
I.S. 61 William A. Morris School
Private/Parochial
Sacred Heart School (Pre K-8)
301 North Burgher Avenue 10310
718-442-0347
St. Peter's High School for Boys
200 Clinton Avenue 10301
718-447-1676
St Peters- St Paul's Elementary School
129 Clinton Avenue
Staten Island, NY, 10301
718-447-1796
Information about Environmental Remediation Projects in your Community
Brownfields are properties where redevelopment is complicated by actual or suspected environmental contamination from past land usage. Because of New York City's long industrial history, brownfields are found in areas throughout the five boroughs. The New York City Office of Environmental Remediation offers programs that encourage environmental investigation of lightly-to-moderately contaminated sites, and that oversee clean up appropriate to a site's new end use. Information about these projects is available below:

