Travis is the name of a neighborhood at the west-central edge of Staten Island. The island, as the borough of Richmond, is one of the five boroughs of New York City, and New York City is the largest city in the United States. Some local geographers classify its location as being on the island's West Shore, while others reckon it as a Mid-Island neighborhood.

Located north of the Fresh Kills along the shoreline of the Arthur Kill, Travis is one of the most isolated and sparsely-populated locales on Staten Island. In the 1860s it became the site of the USA's first linoleum factory, leading to its originally being named Linoleumville; by the 1920s, however, residents chose to rename the community after Colonel Jacob Travis, whose family had resided there before the linoleum plant opened.

A ferry across the Arthur Kill once linked Travis with Carteret, New Jersey. It stopped running in 1929.

Travis is noted throughout Staten Island for the colorful Independence Day parade held there annually. Many members of the community's founding families are buried in Sylvan Grove Cemetery, a small, triangle-shaped burial ground near the junction of Victory Boulevard and the West Shore Expressway, which has fallen into severe disarray, mostly due to vandalism. An island-wide charitable organization, the Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island, was founded in 1982 in an effort to restore this and other assorted small cemeteries on the island that have been unused for decades, and in some cases, even centuries.

Because Travis lies directly across the Arthur Kill from New Jersey's Chemical Coast, its air quality is often very poor, and inordinately high rates of cancer and other diseases have been discovered among its long-time residents. The closing of the infamous Fresh Kills Landfill in the early 2000s, however, did improve the situation somewhat.

At the eastern edge of Travis is a large industrial park called the Teleport. It houses mostly companies engaged in the Internet and telecommunications industries. The service roads of the West Shore Expressway are also the site of many retail and other businesses.