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1036: 141: 677: 261: 33: 272:(NYPL) operates the Richmondtown branch at 200 Clarke Avenue at Amber Street. It opened in 1996 and contains two floors: a first floor for adults and a second floor for children. In recent years, the Richmondtown Library has been updated to include a TechConnect lab offering"more than 100 technology classes, both online and in-person, at libraries throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island" free of charge. 223:
to the east, Richmondtown has seen much new home construction since the mid-1960s, and ranks as one of the most popular destinations for families seeking to relocate to Staten Island from New York City's other boroughs, especially Brooklyn.
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The town is also home to one of the ten remaining Volunteer Fire Departments in New York City Richmond Engine Company 1, which operates a 2005 American LaFrance Engine purchased through a federal home security grant.
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Richmondtown is zoned to one elementary school, PS 23 The Richmondtown School. It is also zoned to middle schools: IS 2 George L. Egbert and IS 24 Myra S. Barnes.
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was founded. The village became the county seat of Richmond County (with which Staten Island is coterminous) and remained as such until the emergence of
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on the north, Amboy Road on the east and southeast, and the United Hebrew and Ocean View cemeteries on the southwest.
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Originally known as Coccles Town (sometimes misreckoned as Cuckolds Town) because of the abundance of
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in 1777 where he achieved fame and fortune and spent the remainder of his life.
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began to proliferate at the latter site near the end of the 19th century.
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Richmondtown is the birthplace of American bare-knuckle boxer
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