Well, there’s the Staten Island ferry. It smells funny.

Staten Island - Archie Bunker
Bronx - origins of hip hop

Archie Bunker lived in Queens.

Staten Island doesn’t show up in pop culture much, except for “Working Girl,” which was eerily spot-on at the time.

Whoops, I stand corrected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx

Jenny from the Bronx - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lopez

The crossbronx expressway :-)

ChrisL

Notable mention in that classic Rogers & Hart’s Too Many Girls hit: Give it Back to the Indians:
“Old Peter Minuet had nothing to lose when he bought the isle of Manhattan
For twenty-six dollars and a bottle of booze and they threw in the Bronx and Staten.”

“I’ll take Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, too...”

ChrisL

And then there is that story of the boat race to decide if SI would belong to NY or NJ:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/nyregion/21mayor.html

I lived in Staten Island for a while. The two things the natives seemed to mention most often is that Staten Island is home to both the mafia and the Wu-Tang Clan.