Yellow + Blue, Staten Island.
(via how_long_it_takes)
February 12, 2010
January 20, 2010
Great piece about my native borough and how New Yorkers (and others) treat it. NRC readers who know me personally are well aware I have a love/hate fascination with the place. This piece bought back a lot of memories. Now all I can think about is the Staten Island Mall, Ralph’s Ices and rocker vs. guido fights at the New Dorp train station. Memories, kids.
December 11, 2009
New York City has existed in its current five-borough configuration since the turn of the 20th century. One of those five, Staten Island, is connected to the rest of the city and state only by one of its four bridges and the Staten Island Ferry. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its 1989 Board of Estimate of the City of New York v. Morris decision that the city’s New York City Board of Estimate was a violation of the constitutional principle of one man, one vote, the borough’s residents began grumbling about seceding from the city, or even the state, since as the least populous borough their political influence in a more equitable setup would be diminished. Borough residents, a more suburban and middle-class population than the city as a whole, had long felt either ignored or slighted by the rest of the city’s population as well. Upon taking office as borough president, former congressman Guy Molinari fired a mock cannon across Upper New York Bay at city government, signalling an intention to secede from the city if the island’s concerns were not addressed somehow. So far the island has remained part of the city.
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September 19, 2009
marq:
Cribs: Redman
Check out Reggie Noble’s fantastic Staten Island abode. Including his sexual closet, Dreamcast, “the nasty movies” and his legitimately swank ‘n dank studio. I love Redman.
Bonus: freeze frame his movie collection starting at approx 3:48 of the video to check out the randomness with choice DVDs such as Heat, New Jersey Drive (of course), Body Double, Rushmore, The Rage: Carrie II, American Movie(!), two copies of Blue Streak (??) and coincidentally the MTV-produced/ universally-panned Joe’s Apartment…hmm.
September 13, 2009
Did you know?
Unlike the other four boroughs of New York, Staten Island follows no numbered grid system to any significant degree.
The only numbered grid is within a small area in New Dorp, which only goes up to 10th street and does not intersect with any numbered avenues.
However, most Staten Island neighborhoods do follow some degree of grid system, but they don’t follow a system where streets are perpendicular to avenues, they are not numbered, with few exceptions, and they are often not contiguous to one another.
(via wikipedia)
