Everything about Mariners Harbor Staten Island totally explained
Mariners Harbor is a neighborhood located in the northwestern part of
New York City,
USA's borough of
Staten Island.
The neighborhood owes its name to the fact that, during the 19th Century,
oysters and other
seafood products were harvested at the site from the
Kill Van Kull, which forms the neighborhood's northern border (
Elm Park and
Port Ivory lie to the east and west, respectively, while
Graniteville is to the south). This activity declined due to
pollution during the 20th Century, and today only the Mariners Harbor Yacht Club remains as a reminder of the community's maritime past.
One of the stations on the North Shore branch of the
Staten Island Railway was both located in and named after the neighborhood, within which was also found three other stations along the line, at Lake Avenue, Harbor Road, and Arlington (passenger service on this line was discontinued in
1953).
In the
1920s and
1930s the area became home to many
Italian-Americans, who still comprise a significant percentage of its population. The neighborhood was permanently transformed, however, in the late
1940s, when the
New York City Housing Authority erected a
public housing project in the heart of the community, which then soon became predominantly
African-American and later, also
Hispanic. This housing development, like many others on
Staten Island and for that matter, citywide and even nationwide, was hit hard by the
crack cocaine epidemic which began in the mid-
1980s; this further increased the area's
crime rate, which had been high since the mid-
1960s.
Immediately to the south of the housing project is a shopping center once dominated by an outlet of
Major's Department Stores; in
1968, this outlet attracted a swarm of media attention when a caucasian youth, believed to be approximately eight years old, was accosted in the store's rest room by several older
African-American youths, one of whom produced a knife and castrated the victim. Another dubious "landmark" of the neighborhood's past is the Conca d'Oro Motel; opened across Forest Avenue from the aforementioned shopping center in the late
1970s, its owners, who had reputed
Mafia connections, eventually leased the property to the city, which used it to house
welfare mothers and their children. In the early 1980s, while the indigent welfare families occupied motel rooms, the Motel's owners continued to commercially operate the Motel's large Olympic-size swimming pool during summer months. Swimming-Pool Customers were an assortment of families and summer-camps. In the
1990s the building was sold and its name changed to Angels By The Sea II (the new owners also maintained another property, used for the same purpose, located in the
Sheepshead Bay section of
Brooklyn, named Angels By The Sea — thus accounting for the name of the Mariners Harbor property in light of its being situated 0.84 miles [1.35km] from the nearest shoreline). Intense local opposition ultimately forced the facility to close, and the structure itself was demolished in the summer of
2004; various retail establishments are expected to take its place.
In 2008, it was announced that Mariners Harbor would get its own branch of the
New York Public Library, on a vacant lot along South Avenue. It will be the thirteenth Island branch.
The
ZIP Code for Mariners Harbor is 10303.
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