The Staten Island Ferry links Staten Island residents to the rest of New York City

Staten Island is the third-largest borough of New York City (with an area of 60 square miles). It is the least populated of the five boroughs.

Staten Island is the most geographically separate of the city's boroughs, as it is not connected to Manhattan by any direct tunnel, bridge, or subway. It is connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazanno-Narrows Bridge, and to lower Manhattan by the Staten Island Ferry.

Often referred to as the "forgotten borough", Staten Island, with a population of 443,728, is home to 39,704 Blacks/African Americans, 24,905 Asians and Pacific Islanders, 599 American Indians and Native Alaskans, and 53,550 Hispanics.