STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A recent real estate article in the New York Times provides an educational view of the Staten Island Community of Dongan Hills.

According to the article, the East Shore Island community has “three sections, layered and stacked in a kind of cake.”

The feature begins with:

The idea that there could be mean streets on the Upper East Side may seem, to some New Yorkers, akin to the suggestion that alligators swim in the sewers. But crime was in fact a problem on the streets of Yorkville in the early 1960s, according to Steven Zboinski, whose parents would whisk him away each summer to the sparsely settled and comparatively wholesome East Shore of Staten Island.

“It was to make sure you were being brought up the right way,” he said. READ MORE …

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The Staten Island Board of REALTORS® (SIBOR) is the largest not-for-profit trade association in Staten Island, N.Y.

SIBOR exists to enhance the ability and opportunity of its members to conduct their business successfully and ethically; and to promote the preservation of the public’s right to own, transfer and use real property.

Comprised of over 1,600 members, SIBOR serves real estate agents, brokers and affiliated professionals throughout the borough and surrounding areas.

SIBOR is the provider of the Staten Island Multiple Listing Service Inc. (SIMLS), which works as a clearinghouse through which more than 250 local real estate firms exchange information on properties they have listed for sale. Together, its members participate in over 3,000 real estate transactions every year.

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