One of the
five boroughs of New York City who'
s south shore is mostly suburbanish while it's North Shore is consdidered
urban. Any resident can tell you that the two shores are like diffrent worlds. The South shore and mid-island are heavily republican while the North shore has been said to have more in common with parts of Brooklyn and Queens then it does with the rest of Staten Island. The South shore is mostly white while the North shore is primarily black. While the South shore is filled with mostly middle-upper middle
class families living in areas that would be considered suburbs, the North shore is filled with mostly low-income
urban areas that are home to mostly blacks and hispanics. The Staten Island Railroad was
even called the "
Mason-Dixon
Line" due to the fact that the overwhelming majority of the borough's minorities live above it on the island's North shore, and due to
hate crimes that were being commited in Staten Island's Mid-land and southern areas. Crime is also a problem in most of the neighborhoods that make up the North shore. North Staten Island was giving a zoning
law that would allow owners to open stores on it almost
tax-free to help
boost the economy because of the long
time poverty and unemployment that exists on the island's North Shore. While the majority of the neighborhoods on the North Shore are ran-down areas that suffer from crime, poverty, unemployment,
AIDS, teenage pregnacy and other things of that nature, the South and Mid-land areas are for the most part nice places to live and to raise a
family. The media's reluctance to report things that happen on Staten Island most likely so they don't tarnish it's already fading reputation as a virtually crime-free easy going suburb is probably the exact reason why out-of-towners move in to homes on the North Shore and move out accordinly.