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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 and the Arthur Kill, which form, respectively, the neighborhood's northern and western borders. 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 HispanicHispanic as used in the United States, is one of several terms used to categorise US citizens, permanent residents and temporary immigrants, whose background hail either from Spain or the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America. The term is used as a. 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- 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends; this further increased the area's crimeSee crime fiction for a survey of the fictional treatment of crimes and their detection and criminals and their motives. Crime Lake is a lake between Ashton-under-Lyne and Failsworth in Greater Manchester in England. A crime is an act which violates a law rate, which had been high since the mid- 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around.

Immediately to the south of the housing project is a shopping center once dominated by an outlet of Major's Department StoresMajor's was the name of an American chain of department stores with outlets in many states east of the Mississippi River in the decades immediately following World War II. Its logo featured a distinctive drum major, and its merchandise was geared to mainl; in 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the, this outlet attracted a swarm of media attention when a white boy, 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 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 [1.35 km] 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.

Nearby, and sometimes reckoned as part of Mariners Harbor, is Port Ivory - so named because it was long the site of a soap factory operated by Procter & Gamble (which closed it in 1991). Another point of interest in Port Ivory is the Howland Hook Marine Terminal, where a large volume of consumer goods is unloaded off ships and transferred to trucks (and formerly, freight trains that operated on the North Shore branch of the Staten Island Railway). The Staten Island side of the Goethals Bridge is also located here, as is the island's lone mobile home park.

The zip code for Mariners Harbor is 10303.