The Staten Island Railway is finally receiving new R211 railcars during the week of October 15, 2024 — several years behind the rest of the city. The R211 trains are replacing Staten Island’s fleet of […]
CSX railroad operates freight train operations on Staten Island — picking up freight off container ships at a ship-to-rail, Intermodal, on-dock terminal at the Howland Hook Marine Terminal in Port Ivory. The Howland Hook facility […]
A 1990 mob movie based on a true story — a film adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi’s 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. Plot The movie follows […]
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 flick, based on the Mario Puzo best-selling 1969 novel. Plot I’ve watched this move a dozen times and never really […]
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 […]
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