NEW BRIGHTON, a post-village of the United States, in Richmond county, New York, is situated at the northeastern corner of Staten Island, 6 miles south-west of New York, with which it is connected by ferry. Best known as the seat of the Sailors’ Snug Harbour, a fine building fronting the Kill von Kull, which was founded in 1831 for aged and disabled seamen of the port of New York, New Brighton also contains an asylum for destitute children of seamen, one of the largest dyeing and printing establishments in the United States, a silk-printing factory, a paperhanging factory, <fcc., as well as many residences belonging to New York men of business. The population in 1880 was 12,679.