On a lighter note, I’m strangely pleased to see the Times do a nice round-up of affordable, exotic dining options on Staten Island. Although I’m not likely to ever get a chance to explore any of these places, it’s nice to take a moment to reflect upon the positive aspects of the place where I grew up for a change.
Trivia: that article quotes a food editor at the Staten Island Advance on whom I had a brief, unrequited, adolescent crush. I note that she apparently never left the Island, at least not for good.
Additional trivia: the Staten Island Advance is Staten Island’s local newspaper, whose offices and plant were just up the street from where I lived until I left for college. Most kids in the neighborhood hung out at some point in the woods around there or in a little spot beneath an overpass in their parking lot, but it was lame.
Oh! And another thing: The Advance seems to have a Gay and Lesbian Life section now. Huh.
The fact that the Advance has a gay and lesbian section, I believe, is due in no small part to the fact that they have a journalism internship program with Oberlin College, of all places. As for SI’s ethnic cuisine, my knowledge stops at Fortune Garden on Hylan Blvd…
you know, that wooded area on nrr is gone now. it looks weird.
I never thought it would happen: some sort of acceptance of non-italian food and non-straight folk.
But I did so love the Advance as a kid.