NYC Congestion Pricing

[1995hoo]

My father, who grew up in Flatbush, said his Boy Scout troop always went to Staten Island for camping trips because it was in the middle of nowhere.

[Max Rockatansky]

The concept of someone growing up and feeling as though Staten Island is in "the middle nowhere" is bizarre to me. 

[kalvado]

The concept of someone growing up and feeling as though Staten Island is in "the middle nowhere" is bizarre to me. 

Same people who think "upstate" starts at 60th street. 

[Rothman]

The concept of someone growing up and feeling as though Staten Island is in "the middle nowhere" is bizarre to me. 

Give it a visit sometime.

Of course, back then, Staten Island was infamous for one of the largest landfills in the world...so...camping...blech.

[Max Rockatansky]

The concept of someone growing up and feeling as though Staten Island is in "the middle nowhere" is bizarre to me. 

Give it a visit sometime.

Haven't been since 2000.  I was supposed to go with Jessica to Manhattan a couple years back during a December but go pulled into a work thing.

[1995hoo]

The concept of someone growing up and feeling as though Staten Island is in "the middle nowhere" is bizarre to me. 

Me too, but then, bear in mind they also had to take the ferry from 69th Street in Bay Ridge. My father grew up in the 1950s. Staten Island was far more rural prior to the bridge.

[roadman65]

Before the Verazanno Bridge was built Staren Island was like NW Arizona from the rest of it's state.  Connections only from Utah is their source of access. Staten Island had three crossings into New Jersey only.