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What has kept SI the least populated borough in NY? It's huge, yet the population is not very dense, especially when compared to the other boroughs.
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Originally Posted by OleSchoolFool
Lack of subway?
That's part of it. The other part is that you have a lot of marshland, and some of it is protected (like the Greenbelt). I mean, most of the areas along the West Shore Expressway are either industrial areas or part of the Fresh Kills Landfill, so those will probably never get developed.
SI and Northern NJ (for example Essex and Bergen) both seem similar in how the look-pretty suburban and laid back, but I heard some people say they are still different. I am talking about the overall vibe and the people. How does it compare? I read that SI is mainly made up from NYers from Brooklyn and other boroughs, but isn't NJ similar in that sense? It has a buncha NYers and immigrants as well.
What has kept SI the least populated borough in NY? It's huge, yet the population is not very dense, especially when compared to the other boroughs.
Very poor road & building planing. We are on an Island. You would think we could have a great shore line with lot's of summer traffic like NJ. Buy we don't.
The powers that be butched the shore line that any type of summer shore activity is all but non existant.
Our roads & highways are so poorly designed we can barely accomodate the traffic we have now. A typical commute from mid-Island to mid town is over 90 mins. South shore to down down is 90 minsutes, south shore to mid town almost 2 hours. The North shore commute to NYC is vastly worse.
We are the bastard child of NYC & NYS therefore we don't receive prime services or the right amount of money for services.
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Originally Posted by Dood912
nah only raekwon and ghost are from park hill/stapleton, i think.
Ghostface was the only member born on Staten Island I believe. And yes, he's from Stapleton. Raekwon was born in Brooklyn and moved to Parkhill when he was like 8 or something ("Moms bounced on old man, so then we moved to Shaolin Land") but considers himself strictly a Staten Islander (and "Parkhillian," lol). Method Man was born and lived in Hempstead until he was 13 but considers himself a Staten Islander. RZA, GZA and U-God all originate in Brownsville I believe but consider themselves Staten Islanders before anything. Not sure which borough Inspectah Deck was born in but he also considers himself a Staten Islander. All of them except Ghostface are from Parkhill. Additionally, Masta Killa is from East NY and ODB was from Fort Greene and didn't spend any of their youths living on the Island, as far as I know.
As far as the "Shaolin" name, supposedly it's from some martial arts film where the characters' place of origin is named Shaolin, so they dubbed their place of origin "Shaolin." I've also heard it's because the Shaolin Temple is where the characters in these films came up and honed their skills and serves as kind of their homebase, so it was an appropriate name for their home borough.
And yet NJ has one of the highest life expectancies in the country.
Staten Island stays losing.
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