Stapleton is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island, New York City. Cornelius Vanderbilt was raised on a farm in the area, and, in 1832, the Manhattan merchant William J. Staples acquired land from the Vanderbilts, laid out new streets, founded a ferry service, and named the community "Stapleton" in 1836. The neighborhood's many springs led to the establishment of several German breweries that survived from the mid-19th century to 1963. In 1884, the Staten Island Railway expanded to Stapleton, while the ferry closed in 1886. Stapleton became home to several piers in the 1920s, and they were used as the United States' first Foreign Trade Zone from 1937 to 1942, as a facility of the US Army's New York Port of Embarkation during the 1940s, and as a US Coast Guard base from the 1920s to 1967; the piers were ultimately demolished in the 1970s. Stapleton was in the process of development into a US Navy unit from 1983 to 1993, after which the end of the Cold War led to the cancellation of the base project. By 2010, Stapleton had 26,453 people, of whom 37.5% were white, 19.3% Black, .3% Native American, 9.7% Asian, .4% other, 1.6% multiracial, and 31.3% Hispanic.