Grasmere is the name of a neighborhood located on the East Shore of Staten Island, New York. The island makes up one of the five boroughs of New York City, the USA's largest city. The term East Shore is frequently applied to a series of neighborhoods within New York City, USAs borough of Staten Island. ... 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. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ...

One of the earliest settlers of this part of Staten Island was Sir Roderick Cameron, who named it after Grasmere in the UK's Lake District, his birthplace. The fact that there are many small lakes and ponds in the vicinity — most notably Brady's Pond — may have reminded him of his home village. Categories: UK geography stubs | Towns in Cumbria ... Crinkle Crags as seen from the adjoining fell of Cold Pike. ...

The neighborhood has always been one of the most prestigious communities on Staten Island, with the zone around Brady's Pond being particularly affluent. This fact was apparently not lost on some high-ranking Mafia members who ultimately settled there; perhaps the most notorious of these was Aniello Dellacroce, who resided in Grasmere at the time of his death on December 2, 1985 — an event that indirectly led to the assassination of his immediate mob superior, Paul Castellano, two weeks later, allegedly on the orders of John Gotti. The Mafia, also referred to as La Cosa Nostra (Italian, variously translated as This Thing Of Ours or Our Thing), is the collective name of various secret organizations in Italy, Sicily, Corsica and the United States. ... Aniello Dellacroce (1914 - December 2, 1985) was a gangster, and high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family, one of the five major Mafia factions in New York City. ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Constantino Paul Castellano (June 20, 1915 - December 16, 1985), better known as Paul Castellano, was a mafia boss in New York. ... John Gotti John Gotti (October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) (also known as The Dapper Don and The Teflon Don) was the boss of the Gambino family, New Yorks largest mafia family, and one of the most feared. ...

The Staten Island Railway stops in the neighborhood, the distance between its station there and that of Clifton to the north being the longest between any two stations on the line. Grasmere is also the location of the executive offices of the Staten Island Advance, the island's daily newspaper. 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). ... View from the Staten Island Railway platform in Clifton, looking towards the Narrows Clifton is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City in the United States. ... The Staten Island Advance is a daily newspaper published in the borough of Staten Island in New York City. ...