Staten Island is New York’s southernmost borough that you can reach by just catching a free ride aboard the Staten Island Ferry. Staten Island may not seem like much to the eye but if you look deeper into this borough you won’t regret it. Staten Island is known for it’s many museums and landmarks that are around the borough. Another thing that really sets Staten Island apart from all the other boroughs is that it has a lot of parks. Staten Island is known as the borough of parks because it has so many parks some well known parks are Clove Lakes, Silver Lake, Greenbelt and High Rock. Staten Island is also home to Historic Richmond Town where you can experience a slice of colonial life or you can head over to Richmond County Bank Ballpark and catch a baseball game.

Gentrification in Staten Island isn’t as common as it is in the other boroughs because not that many people are moving into Staten Island. Although the fact that more people aren’t moving to Staten Island remains true this doesn’t mean this borough doesn’t experience any gentrification at all. In fact developers that are working on Staten Island have made the northeastern corner their new pinpoint of development. This northeastern corner includes the waterfront neighborhoods of Stapleton, St. George, Tompkinsville and Clifton. These neighborhoods are the new targets of developers because they are located near the Ferry that travels back and forth between Manhattan. The area is also served by the Staten Island Railway which gives gentrifiers a motive to move into this area more so than the western neighborhoods which are restrained to traveling by car to get anywhere. “An island that boomed with exiles who followed the Dodgers out of the borough is now poised for a new renaissance as investors and developers pour $1 billion into the North Shore in hopes of striking Brooklyn-style gold.” As written in an article by Katherine Clarke, New York Daily News, this shows that developers are hoping to soon transform Staten Island into what Brooklyn is now becoming.