Gothamist: NJ Beach Town Mayor Slams Staten Island Girls

bornbrednewyorker

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:51:26 -0500

Yeah mike21 the tired old 'it's the people from Brooklyn who ruined Staten Island' routine, snooze. I guess Living Colour's Vernon Reid moved to Staten Island because it's so bad. I guess David Johansen chooses to still live on Staten Island because it's so bad. My cousin moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island twenty years ago and he's a working session musician and his wife is a working artist. You can find trash in every borough if you get out enough.

mike21

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:25:51 -0500

>>I'll take anyone from Staten Island over most of you douchebag transpants. At least that borough has a majority of real native new yorkers and half of them are from brooklyn not hung up on being cool and ironic. And do you know why that half from Brooklyn moved to Staten Island? Take it from someone who was born there, schooled there, and whose parents and grandparents are also natives to the Island -- it's because these insular, closed-minded Tony Manero Jrs. couldn't handle the fact that they might actually have to live next door to (gasp!) black people and (gasp!) Hispanic people! Last week I heard a radio interview with a woman in her 30s from Staten Island who said she was voting for John McCain because if Barack Obama won, "minorities might think they deserve to get things." I'm not making that up. Staten Island was once a nice place to live, but then these Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst guidos dragged their racist knuckles across the Verrazano Bridge and ruined it for the rest of us. Fortunately, my parents had the sense to take their kids and run to a place where people aspire to do more than buy a house on the same block as their parents and take the Civil Service test -- New Jersey.

bxbrian

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:40:01 -0500

i'd use big words. for the win.

NannyState

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:16:01 -0500

I dare any of you to nip over the narrows and tell a Staten Island girl exactly what you're saying here straight to her face. Go ahead, she's waiting...

aveB4life

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:00:08 -0500

staten island sucks. there i said it. done

nik13

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:44:36 -0500

I think SI guidos are comparable to my NJ ones. SI is almost NJ, anyway. Seems "Growing up Gotti" was a parenting guide to many guidos on both sides of the Kills. Neither have nothing on Brooklyn crews. http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

Snoopy

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:13:15 -0500

Neither one ain't got nothin' on Philly. Dey both don't have kno goud cheese steaks. Philly rules down at the shore. I'm not talking about no beach, I'm talkin' the shore. Yo. Yu want a piece of me? Yeh I'm talkin' to yu.

chris26

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:52:54 -0500

I love how NJ is ripping on SI... they are just trying to buddy up with the city.

bornbrednewyorker

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:11:28 -0500

I'll take anyone from Staten Island over most of you douchebag transpants. At least that borough has a majority of real native new yorkers and half of them are from brooklyn not hung up on being cool and ironic.

bxbrian

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:48:48 -0500

hey man i'm in the bronx! nothing to do with snootyness here, these people are just waiting to be lampooned.

robingee

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:04:01 -0500

Yes, all Manhattanites are soooo much better than the people from outer boroughs or NJ. Living on one side of a bridge or tunnel makes all the difference! It's like a whole better world!

Steven

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:58:03 -0500

New York, New Jersey what is the difference?

robingee

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:56:03 -0500

"They don't take nothing from nobody." Perfect diction. There is a difference between not taking crap and just being a psycho who gets in bar fights. grow up. Sheesh.

bxbrian

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:53:11 -0500

they'd better legalize gay marriage in NJ soon, cause i want to marry the f*ck out of this dude.

Savage

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:31:51 -0500

When I hear any sort of NJ-SI conflict one phrase comes to mind...Retard Fight.

InnaJungleStylee

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:31:08 -0500

Somebody should alert 20th Century Fox to Belmar's fragrant copyright violation in using an image from "The Simpsons" to mark situations where an officer responded to a call on its map. Tsk tsk, if you have no respect for the law Herr Mayor how can you expect others to do so?

esquared

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:28:19 -0500

I still couldn't distinguish someone from Jersey or Staten Island whenever they're in the city.

Snoopy

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:15:46 -0500

Isn't Belmar that broken down city on the Jersey shore where they use to have a black fraternity spring fest or some other black sorority fest? The name sounds familiar. I think the banned them because they wrecked the town.

DUNX

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:11:53 -0500

I've been saying Staten Island is the New New Jersey for years now.

Bubba

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:05:01 -0500

Staten Island is a shit hole filled with shit heels.

evidiot

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:01:52 -0500

Maybe he's finally come around on this whole issue: it's not drinking is the problem during summers in Belmar - it's that WHO IS DRINKING is the problem.

Kojak

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:52:16 -0500

"tanned to the color of coconut shells and easily identified by their plumage: satin shirts and short skirts on the females; Armani Exchange T-shirts and artfully distressed jeans on the male." Well hes got the description of a Guido down to a T. Well done.

Jen S

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:41:39 -0500

JDS should be this man's personal scribe.

Art Stewel

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:36:56 -0500

One time a girl asked me to kiss her where it smells. So I took her to Staten Island.