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South Shore, Staten Island

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Talks have been underway to implement a new Fast Ferry service from the Prince's Bay/Mount Loretto area on the Raritan Bay to both Midtown Manhattan and the Wall Street area. It is estimated based on several studies that the ridership base for such a ferry route would be substantial, given the lack
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and its population rose sharply. The population is predominantly white, but according to census data has been growing more heterogeneous in recent years. Many residents are of Italian, Irish, English, and Jewish descent, with a massive boom to the Italian population in the 1980s and 1990s. The area
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have been built over the last decade. The area is still known for small businesses, including 24-hour delis, pork stores, pizzerias, cafés, gourmet food shops, and a number of independently owned pharmacies, florists, hair, tanning and nail salons, paint stores, and car repair shops.
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with neighborhoods of Annadale, Arden Heights, Charleston, Eltingville, Freshkills Park (South), Great Kills, Huguenot, Oakwood, Prince's Bay, Richmondtown, Rossville, Tottenville, Woodrow
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Staten Islanders on the South Shore have the longest average commute of anyone in New York City. Commuters to Manhattan have the option of express buses, which run along
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of sufficient alternative public transportation from this area and its population of high-income professionals commuting to Manhattan.
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on one side and Richmond Creek and Fresh Kills on the other, thus encompassing the neighborhoods of
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only. Those who use this narrower definition of the "South Shore" prefer the term "
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Prior to the 1960s, the South Shore was undeveloped. After the building of the
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Commerce was previously dominated by small businesses despite the presence of
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running along the eastern boundary of the South Shore. However, a number of
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Many commuters from the South Shore of Staten Island drive over the
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plain of glacial sediment formed from the edge of the
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