Staten Island Ferry Terminal from 1995
Staten Island Christianity is quite interesting.
The unchurched grew up in Catholic school and do breast cancer walks to justify their righteousness. The churched are super rigid about their rules or try to justify sin by claiming to be ‘free.’
Both sides are no better.
Preaching moralism only creates a culture of immoral people. Even those who once held to a particular faith are now forever lost because of it. When will a people arise that seek the renewal of Staten Island through the message and mercy of the true Jesus Christ?
WHEN?!
S.I. Suicide Uproar, Goldens Deli Closes, Unranked Wagner beat Pittsburg, X-mas unbanned in Terminal, Angelina’s back!
Uncle of Amanda Cummings, Staten Island teen hit by bus, slams cyber smear campaign as ‘cowardly’
It’s worse than bullying. That’s what a relative of Amanda Diane Cummings had to say about the scores of profane comments and images members of a cybergroup posted to a Facebook tribute page set up in memory of the 15-year-old, who police believe committed suicide by stepping in front of a city bus.
“We set up memorials, they bash the memorials,” Keith Cummings, Amanda’s uncle, said as he arrived at A. Azzara Funeral Home in South Beach for her wake this afternoon. “It’s not bullying, it’s cowardly. You want to bully, you show yourself.”
The posts — which included photos and messages mocking the teen’s death — began flooding into the page after a call-to-arms posted onto the “/b/” forum of 4chan.org, a Web site that’s home to the Internet’s most noxious hackers and cyberbullies. A similar appeal to make light of the tragedy was issued on the self-proclaimed comedy site, 9gag.com.
Miss Cummings was carrying a suicide note, police say, when she jumped in front of a city bus on Hylan Blvd. on Dec. 27. She died six days later, on Monday. Family members attribute her death in part to years of bullying at the hands of her peers and classmates, compounded by a break-up with an older teen.
Jersey Shore’s Angelina to join VH1’s “Couples Therapy”
The show, which puts lovers through 21 days of intensive therapy, is set to premiere in the spring of 2012 and will also feature DMX and Tashera Simmons, Linda Hogan and Charlie Hill, Kasey Kahl and Vienna Girardi, and Reichen Lehmkuhl and Rodiney Santiago.
Man dresses as Christmas Tree to make a bold statement.
That’s no Christmas tree! It’s Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido dressed as one. He’s in the Staten island Ferry terminal in St. George, protesting the NYDOT decision to ban all holiday decorations from the terminal.
Wagner’s basketball upset of No. 15 Pitt represents a major milestone for program
Wagner College received a vote in the Associated Press Top 25 poll on Sunday.
The gifted writer John Feinstein placed the Seahawks 25th on his weekly ballot, one of 70 or so turned in each week.
It’s the first time in anyone’s memory that a Wagner team was voted in the Top 25 by any poll anywhere, never mind the AP poll.
But that’s the type of Christmas present a program receives when it goes to Pitt and knocks off the 15th-ranked team in America, raising eyebrows while they accomplish that feat by playing with a level of fearlessness and passion that is hard to find anywhere at any level.
Staten Island’s Golden’s Deli to close New Springville restaurant
Golden’s Deli closed on Monday after a 30-year run when its lease ended. The New Springville eatery became a borough institution for its kosher fare (notably its matzo-ball soup) and a subway car parked in the middle of the main dining room.
Former patrons such as Charlie Greinsky of Dongan Hills are sorry to see it go.
“It had become clearly a fixture and a meeting point on Staten Island for those who liked kosher,” he laments. “It’s going to be missed.”
(credit: SILive)
The Forgotten 5th: Little Caesars Coming, Improving Public Space, Wu Tang Concert, Avoiding the Mob, Highest Death Rate
Little Caesars Pizza franchise coming to Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Little Caesars, a franchise known for “Hot-N-Ready” pizza, is planning to open a store in Dongan Hills next week. It is located at 1743 Richmond Road.
The site will sell freshly baked carry-out pizza – $5 for a 14-inch pie – to be picked up by drop-in customers without the need to call ahead.
It’s a formula that became successful nationwide after the first Little Caesars restaurant opened in Garden City, Mich., more than 50 years ago.
The company, which franchises to independent owners, has not operated on Staten Island for some years.
Improving Public Space: Expand the Narrows
The Verrazano Narrows Bridge carries cars between Staten Island and Brooklyn, but it could do so much more. The “Expand the Narrows” vision widens the bridge to include adjacent space for walking, joggling, bicycling — even sunbathing and fishing. In short, it’s “a way to get across, but also a place to get away.”
Some of the ferries that connect Staten Island with lower Manhattan contain an “obsolete vehicle deck” nearly 5,400 square feet large. Why not transform that space into a cultural showcase? That’s the idea behind “Art Bar,” which injects the unused deck with theaters, galleries, and other art venues that host a variety of performances during the 25-minute ride.
Celebrate Hip-hop in the five boroughs: Wu Tang in Shaolin
The Five Out of Five tour will start this Sunday with Queens duo Mobb Deep performing their albumThe Infamous, featuring special guest Lloyd Banks. From Tuesday on, featured artists will include Slick Rick repping the Bronx with The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, the Wu-Tang Clan for Staten Island with Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Black Moon with Big Daddy Kane for Brooklyn with Enta Da Stage and the Diplomats and Vado performing Diplomatic Immunity on behalf of Manhattan.
Hulking gangster “Frankie Steel” complains to judge that he can’t avoid mobsters on Staten Island
A whiny wiseguy told a federal judge that he wants to stay clear of the criminal life, but it’s just too tough while living on Staten Island, what with all the mobsters everywhere.
Frank “Frankie Steel” Pontillo made the statements at a sentencing in Brooklyn federal court — before the same judge he asked leniency of because the FBI traumatized his Yorkie puppy during a January 2010 raid.
Lifestyle is blamed as Staten Islanders far outpace city and state residents in heart, cancer deaths
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Overindulgence and laziness are killing Staten Islanders at a higher rate than elsewhere in the city.
Lack of exercise, eating too much and smoking are among the factors that contribute to the borough’s greater mortality rates compared to other parts of the Big Apple and many areas of the state, experts say.
According to statistics compiled by the state Health Department, Staten Island had the highest death rates per 100,000 people among the five boroughs for heart diseases, cancer, pneumonia and chronic lower respiratory disease.
The Island had the second greatest death rate for hypertension and strokes, trailing only Manhattan, and finished just behind the Bronx in deaths due to diabetes.
