Written and directed by native Staten Islander James DeMonaco, “The First Purge” was actually the 4th of the trilogy of “The Purge” films — it was a prequel that was supposed to take place before […]
The movie of all movies filmed on Staten Island — Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Gangster movie, based on the Mario Puzo best-selling 1969 novel. Plot Set in 1945 in NYC, the Corleone family’s Don, Vito Corleone, […]
The most recent movie of movies filmed on Staten Island — a national hit comedy-drama that generated a lot of acclaim and did well at the box office. Directed by native NYer Judd Apatow, from […]
“There’s a game on Staten Island called ‘Bullshit’; I’m from Staten Island and I call Bullshit.” I’ve used this line a lot the last 15 or so years — especially in the last 8 years […]
A 1980 American psycho-slasher film directed by Staten Islander Armand Mastroianni, written by Scott Parker and starring Caitlin O’Heaney, Don Scardino, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, and Tom Hanks in his movie debut. Plot A young bride is murdered on […]
Newspapers have gone the way of the DoDo bird, and so too have College Newspapers. There was a time when writing for the College Newspaper was an admirable thing to do — a stepping stone […]
A list of the hottest clubs on Staten Island, as told to us by our 20-something daughter and her 20-something friends who are regularly hitting clubs on the island: Hottest Night Clubs & Bars District […]
The Staten Island Lighthouse Museum is one of Staten Island’s treasures. Staten Island won a very competitive bid to house the Lighthouse Museum in 1998. It received $8 million dollars to erect the museum, but […]
“We all gathered together the week before, and we were talking about the bridge opening the following week,” remembers George Scarpelli. “And Richie Ramaglia said ‘you know somebody from Staten Island should be first.’ And […]
The John F Kennedy ferry boat that Pete Davidson and Colin Jost bought on auction for $280,000 to turn into a floating nightclub, is infested with roaches and full of asbestos — which are requiring […]
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