One Man’s Bold Quest to Lure Cool New Yorkers to the City’s Least-Hip Borough

CAN A NEW $150 MILLION DEVELOPMENT TURN STATEN ISLAND INTO A GENUINE RESIDENTIAL DESTINATION? HMM. BY CAITLIN MOSCATELLO Staten Island is one of New York’s five boroughs, but it seems like another world. Nobody goes there except for tourists who want to ride the free ferry and residents commuting home. The cool kids across the … Continue reading One Man’s Bold Quest to Lure Cool New Yorkers to the City’s Least-Hip Borough

Tide turns as groundbreaking at Staten Island’s old home port ushers in $1B boom

via Jillian Jorgensen/ SILive.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Twenty years after the U.S. Navy left the Stapleton home port behind, redevelopment of the prime piece of waterfront has finally begun -- and it's just the beginning of $1 billion in private investment slated for the North Shore. "Now, at long last , we're about to … Continue reading Tide turns as groundbreaking at Staten Island’s old home port ushers in $1B boom