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Six flags of New York
New York City's six borough flags.
Staten Island isn’t a dump. But its flag “looks like seagulls flying atop the Fresh Kills Landfill,” said Borough President Jimmy Oddo. So he had the unofficial flag unofficially redesigned in 2016 to something a little more staid: an updated green borough seal. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio went along with it, flying the new flag at his January inauguration, but the New York City Council’s not on board: They’re still flying the “dump” flag at City Hall. Here’s a bit on the borough’s banners – most of them, uncontroversial.
Staten Island
Goodbye cartoonish hill, hello allegorical female figure staring out at an oyster fishing boat on The Narrows. It’s based on a refreshed version of the borough seal, and the two dates represent the year Henry Hudson first visited the island, in 1609, and the year Staten Island joined New York City, 1898.
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