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Sanity Claws

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2. Lots of cops live there.

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2024, 08:47 PM

Jan 2024

Ethnically it tends to have heavier concentration of second and third generation Italian families, some Irish.
If you want to be active in the arts, music, theater, or any of the other things that NYC offer, you don't live there because it is too far away from everything. It is physically closer to NJ than to the NYC.

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Why is Staten Island so Republican? [View all] Elessar Zappa Jan 2024 OP

As a former Jersey Girl I can assure you that many mobsters have homes there. Hey, we all have to live somewhere.. SheilaAnn Jan 2024 #1

Lots of cops live there. Sanity Claws Jan 2024 #2

Its remoteness attracts people who want to get as far away from what makes NY NY, marybourg Jan 2024 #3

I have snowbird neighbors here in Florida that MOMFUDSKI Jan 2024 #4

Working class whites. Lucky Luciano Jan 2024 #5

It's mostly suburbs w lots of Wall Street workers IbogaProject Jan 2024 #6

Very few Wall Street types live in SI. Lucky Luciano Jan 2024 #7

And then there's my friend who grew up in Staten Island, moved to the Northeast about 9 years ago Rhiannon12866 Jan 2024 #8

Tony Bourdain went there with native David Johansen BigmanPigman Jan 2024 #9

I think Northernmost Staten Island has become more racially mixed in the last ?20+ yrs. Parts of Brooklyn .. electric_blue68 Mar 2024 #10

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