Originally Posted By: m2w
anyway even if it was 35% it's big number for a whole district of almost 500.000


There are over 175,000 Italian Americans living in Staten Island, and they make up over one-third (35.7%) of the population. Roughly 65,000 Irish Americans live in the borough, and they make up over one-eighth (13.2%) of the population. People of German, Russian, and Polish descent make up 5.7, 3.8, and 3.4% of the population, respectively."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Staten_Island


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