Staten Island, as Shaolin was known during Pre-War times, was known as "the forgotten boro," of New York because it was the last to be developed, really getting its start when the Verrazano-Narrows bridge between the island and Brooklyn was built in 1962. The neighborhood of Travis, located on the western side of the island, was known as the “last frontier”. As late as the 1970s, farms and other vestiges of New York City’s past could still be found in the small, tightly-knit neighborhood. Through the turn of the 21st century, the people of Travis did their best to fight the efforts of corrupt politicians and the contractor companies they were in bed with to stop the rapid development of the neighborhood and preserve the soul of one of New York’s last true unique neighborhoods.