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There are 21 counties in the U.S. state of New Jersey. These counties together contain 564 municipalities, or administrative entities composed of clearly defined territory; 252 boroughs, 52 cities, 15 towns, 241 townships, and 4 villages. [1] In New Jersey, a county is a local level of government between the state and municipalities.
"NYC Neighborhoods Map", NYC Department of City Planning, 2014. ... Staten Island Advance, 2015. This page was last edited on 6 January 2025, at 00:00 ...
In national elections, Staten Island is a Republican-leaning county. Staten Island has voted for a Democratic presidential nominee only four times since 1940: in 1964, 1996, 2000, and 2012. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain won 52% of the vote in the borough to Democrat Barack Obama's 48%.
In central Staten Island, the Staten Island Greenbelt spans approximately 2,500 acres (10 km 2), including 28 miles (45 km) of walking trails and one of the last undisturbed forests in the city. [37] Designated in 1984 to protect the island's natural lands, the Greenbelt comprises seven city parks.
Arthur Kill Road is a major northeast-southwest artery along the South-West Shore of the New York City borough of Staten Island.It is 8.54 miles (13.74 km) long, [1] and runs through the neighborhoods of Tottenville, Richmond Valley, Charleston, Rossville, Woodrow, Huguenot, Arden Heights, Annadale, Eltingville, Greenridge, Great Kills, and Richmondtown.
Richmond Avenue is served by the following bus routes: [7] The primary buses are the S59 and S89, serving the entire corridor except for two portions: between Platinum Avenue and either Staten Island Mall’s north entrance/exit (S59), or Richmond Hill Road (S89), and between Yukon Avenue and Forest Hill Road (S59 only).
Raritan Bay is a bay located at the southern portion of Lower New York Bay between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey and is part of the New York Bight.The bay is bounded on the northwest by New York's Staten Island, on the west by Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on the south by the Raritan Bayshore communities in the New Jersey counties of Middlesex and Monmouth, and on the east by Sandy ...
Generally, the North Shore is deemed to include the communities located within ZIP codes 10303, 10302 and 10310 in their entirety, along with all of the area covered by 10301 except Sunnyside, and those parts of 10304, 10305, 10314 that lie north of the Staten Island Expressway.