Ethnically it tends to have heavier concentration of second and third generation Italian families, some Irish.
If you want to be active in the arts, music, theater, or any of the other things that NYC offer, you don't live there because it is too far away from everything. It is physically closer to NJ than to the NYC.

while still living in NY because of work or family.

live in Staten Island. Italian. He was a firefighter. Trumpers. Hate blacks/browns. They don’t see the humor in that. Don’t get it.

That is the main thing. NYC has some GOP strongholds in SI, Brooklyn & queens.b

They’re usually in Fairfield County, Westchester County, much of nearby NJ, parts of Brooklyn that are practically extensions of Manhattan, and Long Island. Not sure I ever met anyone commuting from Staten Island, though one guy did commute via a long haul ferry from Rumson, NJ each day. That’s a helluva commute!

And she's a lifelong Democrat, dislikes TFG as much as those of us here do, and now her daughter's at voting age (my friend moved here so her daughter could go to a smaller school), and she feels just the same.

of The New York Dolls in 2009.

https://vimeo.com/6644355
Jump to the 19:00 minute mark.

... Southeastern Brooklyn a lot of Italians. Definitely some Mobsters there.

But Italians do range like just about any group from liberal to conservative. The percentages may vary.

I think some sections of Queens may still be very white don't know quite where - maybe by the Eastern city line into Long Island.
A lot of Asians in Queens.

And, yeah, a lot of cops, and firefighters live in S.I. .