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Staten Island , New York was named after the legislative governing body of the Netherlands, the Staten-General , perhaps because a meeting was held there in 1776 in which American and British representatives tried unsuccessfully to negotiate a peaceful end to the American Revolution.
In the only congressional race of this election, the contest for Susan Molinari's seat on Staten Island was fought in part over the cost of driving across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Staten Island to Brooklyn and thence to the rest of the world.
Located in Staten Island, it's the largest and most poetically named garbage dump in the world).
Mass commitment to urbanism has never existed in the United States--even in New York, which seems more urban than it really is because it annexed most of its suburbs (that is, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island) long ago.
Democrat Eric Vitaliano, who has been a state-assembly member for many years, took credit for reducing the cost for Staten Island residents, who get discounts of up to 70 percent on the $7 round-trip toll (and who can ride to Manhattan at no charge on the Staten Island Ferry).