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Staten Island Screwed By FEMA Again

Staten Island isn’t like the rest of New York City. It is smaller, greener, more family oriented, and less of a concrete jungle. My Mom used to tell me stories of growing up on Staten Island when there were celery farms. Perhaps its differences is what has made it the forgotten borough.

Now it looks like FEMA which was late bringing assistance to Staten Island after Sandy is abandoning them again.


From DNAInfo.com/Stephanie Keith

This really pisses me off.

My ties to Staten Island run deep and it hurts me to see islanders treated like this. My mother grew up there, went to high school there, and went to college there as did her sister and brother. My grandfather was the Tax Assessor for the County of Richmond in the 1930s and 40s. My cousin Tom and his family still live in what was my grandparent’s last house.

You can read the full story in DNAInfo.com here.

Scary Picture Of The Day

Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) toured Staten Island yesterday to see the destruction wrought by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Sandy and brought with them promises of aid. The south shore of the “forgotten borough” was one of the hardest areas in New York.

Gillibrand had the good sense to wear a normal fleece jacket. Schumer, on the other hand, was wearing an official navy windbreaker from FEMA. Now if that isn’t a scary sight, I don’t know what is. The most anti-gun senator in the Senate wearing a jacket from one of the most inept agencies of the Federal government. I won’t even mention that FEMA is the topic of more than one conspiracy theory.

Picture from the Staten Island Advance

(Do keep the people of Staten Island in your prayers and thoughts. My cousin Tom and his wife Meryl still live in my grandparent’s old house on Staten Island and came through OK. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others who’s lives and homes were devastated.)