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Once again, year’s-end reminiscing has me dipping into the archives to see what I was thinking way back when. Here’s a piece I wrote twenty years ago, and published in the November 1978 issue of the North Shore Press, a brief and ill-fated experiment in alternative journalism here on the island. Has anything much changed […] Joe Conason of the New York Observer refers to Staten Island as “the city’s smallest and remotest borough.” Staten Island measures in at approximately 68 square miles, making it almost three times as large as Manhattan. One assumes, charitably, that this young reporter simply does not know the not-insignificant difference between “smallest” and “least populous.” […] |