Defend the Indefensible: Staten Island

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The beaches off the south shore aren't too bad, are sparsely populated, and are probably cleaner than any Brooklyn or Queens waters (also the dump has been closed for 3 years); there's lots of dead shit around for the urban exploration geek in me; um... when I was a kid I had a birthday party or two at Farrell's ice cream parlor in the Staten Island Mall. And of course there's the ferry, which I suppose has to dock somewhere. And the land mass props up the other side of the Verrazzano bridge, which isn't even the world's longest suspension bridge anymore.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.realmusic.ru/media/photos/1/2441/5233.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

there's that, and david johansen too.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and steven seagal!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i enjoyed taking the ferry there but once i got there i didn't really know what to do so walked up to the baseball stadium then back to the ferry heh. there was a museum of some sort nearby but i didn't know what of.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the ferry is SO GREAT

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

extra great when it plays chase with the Queen Mary 2, helicopters all around and you're listening to 'Pearl's Girl' for the first time in yonks as the Statue Of Liberty passes by unimpressed as always

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheap and EXCELLENT Sri Lankan food.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

RIGA
KASTA(RU)

- wot duz that mean?! Ned?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheap and EXCELLENT Sri Lankan food.

This point can't be underlined in red enough times. Appam is the one-dish defense against this charge of indefensibility, And you can walk up Victory Blvd from the ferry terminal, easy-peasy.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

wot duz that mean?! Ned?

You got me! I just found the image randomly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Straight outta Staten Island to the Baltic Sea.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm telling you, t\'\'t will be the Suge Knight of his time. Except without all the deaths and jail and stuff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

bah! i'll happily do without them deaths and jails, y'kno, but stuff - i need stuff, mon!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ever wanna know what new jerseyans make fun of? they make fun of staten island.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, the mullet still roams proud & free in parts of staten island.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sisters to thread!

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it suffers from the same manhattan-centric bashing that jersey does i.e. the parts manhattanites are most likely to see is ugly, but the parts further away from the city are quite nice.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i like new jersey a lot -- the pretty and ugly parts. i'm still trying to get a handle on staten island though. i'm finding that even the "pretty" parts are a bit grim and characterless. honestly, i get bad vibes from the whole borough.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/realestate/neighborhoods/features/760/index.html

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

they don't even wanna be PART of NYC. and NJ doesn't want 'em, either!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The last time I went to Staten Island I went to the Tibetan Musem of Art, which was a bit of a chore to get too. We got on a bus, but I think we missed our stop, and ended up at the local prison. Vultures flew overhead. We walked back, passed interminable strip malls, and stopped at one of them for pizza. I'd like to take the subway/train that runs through Staten Island -- those blue unmarked dots that run down the course of the island on the MTA subway map seem woefully mysterious. Surely great treasures await therin?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

How was that museum? I tried to go once but it was closed.

― Sengai, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

We got on a bus, but I think we missed our stop, and ended up at the local prison. Vultures flew overhead.

to go back in the other direction, turn to page 58

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The museum was pretty cool -- the best part about it was the landscaping -- it was set on a dramatic cliff and the outdoor area was very gloomy and gothic, with overgrown shrubage. Getting there was a bit traumatic though.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

the only Yankees I'd ever root for play on Staten Island.

oh and roger adultery lives there.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

beef jerky's used in unique ways there, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

do the locals call it "shaolin?"

― mike a, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Residents Weigh In On Plans For Park On Fresh Kills Landfill

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

amazing that it was NED, of all people, who trotted out the wu as a defense of staten island!

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 26 April 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

Recently I discovered that my grandmother's family were among the original Huguenot settlers of SI, arriving there in 1685 or so - Port Richmond was originally called M3rc3reau's Landing after them. Very entertaining Revolutionary War stories involving this family, too. Here's my great x 5 grandfather, a rebel spy, writing to his direct boss George Washington:

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~windmill/image/jmerclet.gif

― suzy, Saturday, 26 April 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

yo MTV: staten island is NOT part of NJ! please remind everyone watching "jersey shore" of this fact.

― ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK… WHERER MY IHOP (Eisbaer), Sunday, 6 December 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

apropos of nothing, other than the fact that i need a good laugh tonight.

― deutsche Scheisse prawns (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/realestate/follow-the-drips-of-paint.html?_r=1&hpw

― buzza, Monday, 19 March 2012 04:04 (thirteen years ago)

i've seen a few such articles about stapleton in the last few years. my guess is that it will wind up like mott haven - a local artsy outpost but not the center of anything

― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 March 2012 04:13 (thirteen years ago)

SoBro 4eva

― buzza, Monday, 19 March 2012 04:14 (thirteen years ago)

a place replete with colorful murals

― buzza, Monday, 19 March 2012 04:18 (thirteen years ago)

follow the drips

― lag∞n, Monday, 19 March 2012 04:18 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-york-city/1323959-staten-island-should-designated-just-those.html

― buzza, Monday, 19 March 2012 04:35 (thirteen years ago)

My dad used to have a terrible joke that went like this:

"You know how Staten Island got its name right? Well Henry Hudson was sailing along one day when he looked out through his telescope and said, [yiddish accent] 'Isdaten Island?'

― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 19:29 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

Spent an entire day on the island over the weekend, first time really hanging out there. Was there to visit a couple of people from my wife’s job but also did the Staten Island Zoo, Egger’s Ice Cream and Korzo Klub for dinner. Strangest boro imo, very much feels cut off from the city as it is in subway terms. Parts of it are like bizarro middle America filtered through New York. Korzo is amazing though, best burger I’ve ever had.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 29 April 2018 14:06 (seven years ago)

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