A Quote by Vito Fossella

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target. — © Vito Fossella
The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.
Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.
I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it's the most amazing view of New York. And it's free! You see Ellis Island, and it conjures up something of that great moment: you know, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It's staggering.
Every time we have a chance to mention it, we say we're from Staten Island. Because of some of the stereotypes, sometimes Staten Island gets a bad rap, and we're in a position to at least try to maybe change that perception.
By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.
In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.
I started a business with my cousins in Fire Island called 'Wagoneers.' Since there are no cars on the island, we would hustle people at the ferry docks to bring their luggage to their houses in our wagons for a large fee.
In the summer of 2007, I was in New York for some meetings and... I rented a car and just drove to Staten Island to take a glance and remind myself about it. I ended up staying a couple of days there in a hotel and I've been all over the island several times since.
Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.
Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.
My name is Carmella, and I'm the moonwalking, trash-talking princess of Staten Island.
I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.
I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.
Staten Island is set off completely by itself in its own world, and that's one of the fascinating things about it, dramatically.
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