# is Statton island inhabited? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 15, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657 "2003-10-15T22:05:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leighton1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@leighton1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leighton1978)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/1 "2003-10-15T22:05:46Z")
Excuse me for my ignorance but i was just a having a little discussion with my family about statton island? Now we are not sure whether it is inhabited or not? If it isn`t why, and what do they use it for?? I did work sailing out of statton island to Bermuda in 2001 but don`t remember anything bieng there? any conclusions to this silly question would be grateful!!! ---
**Author:** ![leighton1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@leighton1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leighton1978)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/2 "2003-10-15T22:08:35Z")
sorry i didn`t sail out of Statton island i sailed out of NY city!!! if i did i wouldn`t of needed an answer! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/3 "2003-10-15T22:10:53Z")
You’re not referring to Staten Island, New York, USA, are you? Because that is most definitely populated. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/4 "2003-10-15T22:14:59Z")
Staten Island has about half a million people living on it. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/5 "2003-10-15T22:39:22Z")
Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, so you could have sailed out of both Staten Island and New York City. In case you’re interested, here’s the borough’s webpage. > **[Staten Island USA](https://www.statenislandusa.com/)** > > Official guide to Staten Island, New York. News, information and special events from the Borough President's Office. ---
**Author:** ![slipster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/6 "2003-10-16T00:19:37Z")
Richmond is one of the five burroughs of New York City. It is located on Staten Island, and people generally refer to the burrough as “Staten Island” as a result. The other, better-known, burroughs are Manhatten, Queens, Brooklyn and The Bronx. Some years back Harry Morgan and Lois Nettleton starred in a not-very-good situation comedy called You Can’t Take It With You, which was a tepid adaptation of the famous Kaufman and Hart play. In the series the family lived in a big house on Staten Island. In the original play they lived in Harlem, but there had been some changes in the neighborhood between the 1930s and the 1990s. Sorry, Wrong Number comes to mind as an example of a well-known film in which a significant part of the action is set on Staten Island. ---
**Author:** ![slipster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/7 "2003-10-16T00:21:46Z")
Sorry, that should be “borough”. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/8 "2003-10-16T00:40:35Z")
Interestingly, there are 200 hits for “statton island” on Google. As far as I can tell, they’re all misspellings of ‘Staten Island.’ (I searched just in case there really was a ‘statton island’ and the OP was a trick question). The real Staten Island got about two and half million hits. Peace. ---
**Author:** ![KP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/9 "2003-10-16T00:56:51Z")
It’s possible that you didn’t sail out of Staten Island. As far as I know, the only public port facility in Staten Island is the [Howland Hook Container shipping facility](http://www.panynj.gov/commerce/hhmain.HTM) However, for a more definitive answer you might browse the [Port Authority of New York and New Jersey](http://www.panynj.gov/commerce/portmapframe.htm) website. There are several other public and private port facilities in and around New York with the word ‘island’ in them. I don’t know which ones handle passengers. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/10 "2003-10-16T01:40:33Z")
Slipster, my friend, may I slip in a small correction to your post? The borough (and geographic) name is “Staten Island.” The _county_ name is “Richmond.” For the record, the borough and county are co-terminous, but that does not mean that they are the same thing; boroughs are city designations and counties are state designations. Borough and county both used to be called “Richmond” until, oh, the early 1980’s, if my memory is correct. Someone figured it was rediculous to call it by a name that drew stares of bewilderment everywhere outside a courthouse, and they changed the borough name to the commonly used geographic designation “Staten Island.” ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/11 "2003-10-16T01:56:59Z")
**stuyguy** is correct (as usual) about the important borough/county distinction. For reference, the other ones with differing names are Manhattan/New York County, and Brooklyn/Kings County. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/12 "2003-10-16T02:59:14Z")
Ok, it’s inhabited. But is it inhabitable? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-statton-island-inhabited/207657/13 "2003-10-16T03:07:17Z")
Well, I’ve found many neighborhoods on Staten Island to be quite lovely. But I wouldn’t wanna live there. Much of it is quite suburban, despite being part of the City.