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Let me tell you, I worked at Da Noi on Victory Blvd for a year when I was in college. You can't tell the difference between one customer and the next and they all look like they just got out of a "Goodfellas The Next Generation" casting call. No offense to Italians my closest friend is Sicilian and another is an immigrant from northern Italy. Just the wiseguy act gets all quick
Well actually don't know which is worse, the "wise guy" routine or "the Fonz", "Lords of Flatbush" or "Tony Manero" that was during the 1970's through 1980's , *LOL* Oh I left out "Rocky" and "Vinne Barbarino".
Personally the one recent film to me that captures the real Italian-American families/persons I know would be "Moonstruck". It just got so many things "right" including the fried toast with eggs Mrs. Castorini makes for breakfast. There were more kids at my schools and or friends growing up that had that sort of Italian-American family than "the Sopranos". It was really magical. You'd go over someone's house to see if so and so was ready for school or whatever and the first thing their mother would ask is "are you hungry?".
Now some "mob films" did get a few things right. The wedding scene from the Godfather was like many of the Italian-American weddings of friends from school and college I went to back in the day:
I am going to assume that SINY2NC, means State Island, NY to North Carolina. And you think there are no drugs there? North Carolina has a huge problem with Crystal Meth. There are labs sprouting everywhere.
We were TWICE attacked by drug users in North Carolina: Once in Fayetville, and another time, three rests stops from there. They came out of the woods.........there is no place to hide from drugs. And now many states are legalizing Marijuana..........and people will be DRIVING under the influence of Marijuana........God help us....
It really is out of control. It saddens me that so many are oblivious because that puts their kids and family and loved ones at risk. Just driving is dangerous as so many people are driving high. I personally know 5 dead kids now, and that is not including so many others I know OF. This can not be normal! These weren't kids from bad families! That is my point!!
People don't realize whenever they hear of a petty theft, or a car broken into, or a package stolen...it isn't because the thief wants the items...it is because they have a HABIT. Most house burglars are white males with habits. On Staten Island this is off the hook. The numbers and statistics do not lie.
It really is out of control. It saddens me that so many are oblivious because that puts their kids and family and loved ones at risk. Just driving is dangerous as so many people are driving high. I personally know 5 dead kids now, and that is not including so many others I know OF. This can not be normal! These weren't kids from bad families! That is my point!!
People don't realize whenever they hear of a petty theft, or a car broken into, or a package stolen...it isn't because the thief wants the items...it is because they have a HABIT. Most house burglars are white males with habits. On Staten Island this is off the hook. The numbers and statistics do not lie.
My son lost 2 kids he knew well both in NC due to car accidents and hubby's aquaintance lost his son in Florida..
At least once a week there are similar drug related articles in the SI Advance. Those are only the stories and or NYPD reports that make it to the media, which tells you there is more, much more going on.
You want to move out to the Rock? Fine, it is a beautiful place and can be a nice place to live and raise a family but be forewarned, Mayberry is isn't anymore. Every bit of scum that comes with urban living has infested the Island over the past thirty years and it is only going to get worse.
Staten Island has over 450,000 residents. Of course you are going to be able to find a few articles every week regarding whatever type of crime you want to highlight: guns, drugs, car thefts, etc. You aren't proving anything close to an epidemic when you do this. I don't believe any one who has disagreed with you here is pushing the idea that SI is completely crime free.
This phenomenon of using internet links to push anecdotal observations should have petered out by now, but apparently we still have people who have yet to fully understand how the internet affects perception. This is why organizations which have real skin in the game, like government agencies, rely on statistics rather than anecdotes.
Staten Island is and likely always will be the safest borough of NYC, by far. The statistics don't lie (as SINY2NC so ironically pointed out...). Posting one link of two 22 year-old kids fighting during a snow storm doesn't a guido-plague make any more than a junkie stealing from a family that knew he was a junkie portend a drug epidemic.
I challenge SINY2NC to take pictures of the numerous open-air drug deals he/she seems to witness daily and post them here to prove me wrong. He/she and their spouse keep pushing their collective experience in this matter, well I can state that I have quite a few years of observing drug-related activity under my belt also and I rarely if ever see what appears to be drug dealing in the open anywhere on SI.
So post the pictures, prove us all wrong. Otherwise, stop with the anecdotal nonsense and let the statistics prove you wrong, as they unequivocally do.
Staten Island has the HIGHEST rate of drug abuse in all of NYC per capita and the second highest in all the STATE. Those stats don't lie.
Except the resulting crime rate remains much lower than the rest of the city. Drug use does not equal rampant drug crime apparently.
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