What to know about Staten Island and how it joined NYC : vim

For nearly 200 years, New Jersey and New York City bickered over ownership of Staten Island, with the residents overwhelmingly siding with NYC in 1894 until popular opinion changed following the Fresh Kills garbage dump.

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