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Clifton is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City in the United States. It is an older waterfront neighborhood, facing Upper New York Bay on the east. It is bordered on the north by Stapleton, on the south by Rosebank, on the southwest by Concord, and on the west by Van Duzer Street. View from the Staten Island Railway platform across the Narrows in Clifton, Staten Island File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
View from the Staten Island Railway platform across the Narrows in Clifton, Staten Island File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Staten Island Railway (SIR) or Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) is a rapid transit line operating in the Borough of Staten Island, New York City, USA. It began, like the BMT lines to Coney Island, as a typical railway, but it now uses subway cars (R44). ...
New York Harbor, as seen in a TERRA satellite image. ...
For other uses, see Staten Island (disambiguation) Staten Island, shown in an enhanced satellite image Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located on an island of the same name on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor. ...
The skyline of Lower Manhattan, with the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (1973 – 2001). ...
Upper New York Bay, sometimes called Upper New York Harbor or the Upper Bay, is the northern area of New York Harbor inside the Narrows. ...
Stapleton is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City in the United States. ...
Rosebank is the name of a neighborhood located in the northeastern part of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of the USAs largest city, New York. ...
The word Concord comes from the Roman goddess Concordia (goddess of agreement and understanding). ...
History
The name "Clifton" for the area dates to 1817, when a town by the name, larger in area than the present neighborhood, was laid out along the waterfront. In its early history, much of the surrounding land was owned by the Vanderbilt family. As a young man, Cornelius Vanderbilt established ferry service from the waterfront to Manhattan at the foot of present Vanderbilt Avenue. Bayley Seton Hospital, north of Vanderbilt Avenue, was formerly the United States Public Health Service Hospital and housed the original headquarters of the National Institutes of Health (now located in Bethesda, Maryland). 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was a U.S. entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. ...
Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for medical research. ...
Panoramic view of downtown Bethesda Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church (built 1820), which in turn was named from a passage in the New Testament. ...
The Park Hill Apartments, a privately-owned but federally-subsidized low-income housing complex on Vanderbilt Avenue, became the site of steadily increasing crime and drug abuse beginning in the mid-1960s; by the late 1980s it had gained the nickname of "Crack Hill" due to the many arrests for possession and/or sale of crack cocaine that were taking place in and around the development and the adjacent Fox Hills Apartments to the south. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...
Cocaine is a crystalline alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...
In the 1990s, the neighborhood became the center for an immigrant community from Liberia and other West Africans around Targee Street. The residences in the neighborhood are mostly one-family houses, but the last decade has seen the development of many attached homes and duplexes on formerly commercial property. The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ...
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The neighborhood is along the route of the Staten Island Railway, three stops from the ferry at St. George. Staten Island Railway (SIR) or Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) is a rapid transit line operating in the Borough of Staten Island, New York City, USA. It began, like the BMT lines to Coney Island, as a typical railway, but it now uses subway cars (R44). ...
Overlooking the harbor from beside Borough Hall St. ...
Word is bond many members and affiliates of the Wu Tang Clan originally hail from this neighborhood. The Wu-Tang Clan is a pioneering hardcore rap group, originally from Staten Island, New York, USA (Staten Island is referred to as Shaolin in their lyrics). ...
Actually "Clifton" is a group a neighborhoods which originally included Rosebank Stapleton Concord and Parkhill.
Clifton Ave is actually in Rosebank and so is the Clifton train station.
The Staten Island Advance, Staten Island's main newspaper, still reports stories as happening in the "Rosebank" section of Clifton or the "Park Hill" section of Clifton for example.
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