According to today’s City section, that is:

Even as New York’s hip young things invade and colonize
neighborhoods near, far and out of state, Staten Island has stayed
stubbornly uncool. It remains the forgotten borough; even the success
of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan did not remove the island’s seemingly
impenetrable veneer of hiplessness.

Blame the former landfill.
Blame Melanie Griffith, she of the Aqua Net hair and adenoidal voice
who immortalized the stereotypical island lass in the 1988 movie
“Working Girl,” until she ousted her mean boss (Sigourney Weaver) and
lost her frizzy mullet.

But slowly that is changing. Within the
past few years, a small but growing number of hip young things have
begun staring in the face of the island’s lack of coolness and
embracing it, to the delight of local boosters. A report released in
the spring by the Center for an Urban Future, a public policy group,
recommended denser development near the ferry to attract more young
professionals and artists. But a good many are already there