@JLeslie
Correcting a common mistake. The Borough of Staten Island is part of the city of New York.
The borough has the same geographic and political boundaries of Richmond County, which is one of 62 counties in the State of New York.
The name of the Borough of Richmond was changed during the Beame administration 1973 – 1977) due to the efforts and entreaties of Paul O’Dwyer who was the President of the City Council, the legislative branch of government in New York City during those years.
His motivation to make the change was strictly to embarrass the UK by changing the name from Richmond, a name of English origin to Staten Island, a name derived from the period when the area was called New Amsterdam and was part of the Dutch Empire.
O’Dwyer was born in County Mayo in Ireland and was a fervent supporter of the Republican cause devoted to the reunification of the six counties of Ulster (Northern Ireland) with the Republic of Ireland. In those days the passions between the two sides in Belfast Northern Ireland, the Catholics and the Protestants, were widespread and there was a great deal of internecine violence.
O’Dwyer was rumored to be a force behind shipping munitions to the Catholic cause in Northern Ireland and the renaming of Staten Island was just another shot at the British occupation of Northern Ireland,
SRM