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Shore Acres is a small neighborhood of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is situated along the Upper New York Bay, just north of Fort Wadsworth and south of Rosebank. Shore Acres is generally considered to be bounded by Bay Street on the west, the Upper New York Bay on the east, Nautilus Street on the north, and ...
Construction finished in 1963, and the Chamber of Commerce cited it as one of the best building projects on Staten Island that year. In 1999, St. Clare's Presentation Convent was re-dedicated as the Presentation Center, providing office space and meeting rooms for the lay ministers carrying forth the retired Sisters' legacy of service.
On January 1, 1898, New York City absorbed East Bronx, Brooklyn, western Queens County, and Staten Island (see Timeline of Brooklyn).For Brooklyn directories that are combined with Manhattan – before and after being incorporated with New York City – see New York City directories.
Staten Island (/ ˈ s t æ t ən / STAT-ən) is the southernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost 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.
The New York Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1768 by twenty New York City merchants. As the first such commercial organization in the United States , it attracted the participation of a number of New York's most influential business leaders, including John Jacob Astor , Peter Cooper , and J. Pierpont Morgan .
The Staten Island Borough Board is composed of the borough president, New York City Council members whose districts are part of the borough, and the chairperson of each community board in the Staten Island. [14] [15] The current borough board (as of June 2020) is composed of the 7 members listed in the table below:
The New-York Directory, published in 1786, was the first extant directory for New York City and the third published in the United States.It listed 846 names. A year earlier, the first two in the country were published in Philadelphia – the first, compiled by Francis White, was initially printed October 27, 1785, [1] [2] [3] and the second, compiled by John Macpherson (1726–1792), was ...
Public School 15 (Daniel D. Tompkins School) (Staten Island Area Office, Office of Building Services, Division of School Facilities, New York City Board of Education) November 19, 1996: Public School 20 Annex, 160 Heberton Ave March 22, 1988: Public School 28 (Former), 276 Center St September 15, 1998: Reformed Church of Huguenot Park