Staten Island - is it time?

I lived there for 6 months and commuted to Wall Street. If I didn't have to commute everyday and was really an artist, sure, why not? But its about as easy to commute from there to Manhattan as from the Lower Hudson Valley, almost.

The difference between Staten Island and Williamsburg is that there are a lot of not very nice people on Staten Island. They are very protective of their island and hostile to "invaders." A very island mentality. I worked there for 26 years. That was plenty.

The commuting has always killed the prospects of Staten Island and that hasn't changed. It's never going to be a hot real estate market for that reason.

Will never happen. The commute is unbearable.

Statentucky? No. Never.

They have some hot fire fighters out there. That was about the only redeeming thing i found about the place. Half of them are bi it seems.

I've never been there and don't know anyone who has.

It’s an island full of racist NYPD officers and their bimbo wives.

It's where all the families of the MOB live.

[quote] I worked there for 26 years.

R2, did you do for a living there?

You think that the only borough in NYC that supported Trump over Clinton in 2016 - and not by a small margin - is going to be hospitable territory for the young and creative and so on? Yikes.

Staten Island is less a part of NYC than Jersey City. Most of the island lacks public transit and is more car based than North Jersey.

Honestly though, now that I can't, I kinda regret not taking the ferry there at some point. It could have been something to do on a Saturday or something.

So many things in the City I never did, and now it's too late :(

Even by Jersey Shore standards Staten Island Girls are trash.

You might want to learn to speak the language before you go there.

Never gonna happen. As the above have stated, there's no good mass transit on the island. It's a long commute to Manhattan. It is full of boorish, conservative, Italian trash and mobsters.

R15 That guy is funny! It sounds like trashy people talk like this.

Can you only get to Staten Island by ferry or is there a bridge?

R18 there is a bridge from S.I. to Brooklyn and Jersey.

So to answer your question, only by ferry.

Why is there no subway to Staten Island?

Are Staten Islanders trashier and more uncouth than Long Islanders?

That guy in the video at R15 wants so badly to be John Roberts.

R20 That would cost a fortune to build and not enough people would use it. Too many other projects are way higher priority. It took like 50 years just to get a partial Second Avenue line.

R21 - yes.

There's a small rail system on the island that's at ground level.

The ferry is fun and cheap. That's about the only good thing I have to say about Staten Island.

It is geographically odd that it was never part of New Jersey. I mean it's just across a relatively small channel from New Jersey, but much farther away from Manhattan and Long Island. I never got why it was not part of New Jersey.

R25 because all islands in the harbor belong to New York.

R7 Hi, 2015 Bump Bitch!

Surprisingly there's a small museum of Tibetan art on the island that's quite nice. It's in the middle of the island, and the only way I've found to get there is by bus from the ferry terminal and then a walk up a large hill.

R28 Appropriate that you should have to walk up a large hill to get to the Tibetan museum, but it is still such a random thing to put on SI.

There are three bridges connecting Staten Island to Jersey r19. And yes geographically it should be part of Jersey, much closer to NJ.

But as others have said the lack of subway/train connection to Staten Island will always be a big limiting factor.

R16, "conservative" is being nice. It's a bunch of racist gindaloons who act like their fucking families came over on the Mayflower, meanwhile, their own friggin grandparents -who reek of garlic- don't speak English, but they'll scream about some Spanish or Arabic people having a conversation in another language.

And spare me the "oh, the irony" of my post because I called them racist and reminding them of their own ETHNIC background.

And it's definitely true about the racist NYPD and their wives, but I wouldn't call them bimbos; more like loud, nasty and angry - but with a manicure and dyed hair.

But the food is great.

The guy in R15 was pretty funny. And now I understand the difference between Staten Island and Brooklyn/NJ accents.

It is time Staten Island just sunk. If Atlantis can do it, so can SI.

There's nothing wrong with Staten Island and there's always been a small funky arty community out there among the working class deplorables. It's never going to be more than it has always been. Also one could live in St. George and commute daily to Wall Street but no further north. It was all about walking distance. I know people who did it for years. 5-10 minute walk tops on each side of the 25 minute ferry trip. It's no worse than coming in from outer parts of big boroughs Bronx and Brooklyn. The terminal is 5 minutes max from tens of thousands of jobs downtown. Didn't any of use guys see Working Girl?

They haven’t even cleaned up Harlem and Washington Heights yet. Developers should focus on that before Staten Island.

Tess McGill commuted to Wall Street from Staten Island.

Why would I want this Staten Island shithole when I can have Far Rockaway?

Harlem has been a gentrifying hotspot for a while now r35.

And yet you still have to take a boat r34. Being cut off from the city except by boat is always going to be a deterrent to a lot of people.

Of course, that's obvious, R39. Which is why I said Staten Island is never going to change into anything it hasn't always been, and certainly not hipster heaven, and anyway this sad little article is years old and was based on a tiny developers delusion.

R38 They’ve been working on it, but there’s still a lot to be done.

[Quote] It’s an island full of racist NYPD officers and their bimbo wives.

All the more reason why people should move there. Counter their voices out and make them politically weaker.

A lot of development is taking place right near the Staten Island ferry on the north end of the island. I was there last summer and went to the National Lighthouse Museum. The curator was saying to me that the plan is to build up the high rises in that area by the water to appeal to hipsters and higher wealth individuals. The fact that it's a free ferry ride and goes right into Wall Street makes it an attractive location to live in. Don't expect a lot of development to occur throughout the entire borough, but that part of the island will definitely become the new hot mecca, unless the Coronavirus wrecks our economy for a decade first.

I don't think there's anything funnier than these asshole NYPD (and other cops) who all expect UNION benefits and who are clearly NOT 1% and have the audacity to vote GOP like whatever economic proposals by the GOP is for them when it sure as hell ain't.

The disgustingly obese ones are particularly laughable considering they whine about everything being "pc." Do they own a fucking mirror?

[quote] The disgustingly obese ones are particularly laughable considering they whine about everything being "pc." Do they own a fucking mirror?

Huh? Do you know what "pc" means?

Better that they should give up that gold-plated union healthcare plan for whatever shitty single payer plan the government deigns to offer, eh, R43?