Brief Description of the county
Richmond County is coextensive with Staten Island, which is one of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is the southernmost part of the both the City and State of New York. Rockland County lies just north of the New Jersey-New York border, west of Westchester County across the Hudson River, and south of Orange County.