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Stapleton in Staten Island, among Daily News‘ Best Places to Live in NY http://ow.ly/4VOlH
Notes on the link above:
Stapleton is an old neighborhood in Staten Island, which happened to be in a borough most NYC people would rather not consider visiting for one reason or another. But I know they’re missing a lot – I used to have the same attitude until I got the opportunity to live here. I would have chosen to live in St. George, which is the closest neighborhood to the ferry terminal that’s a 30-minute ride away from Downtown Manhattan, but Stapleton beckoned. This neighborhood’s the second stop of the Staten Island Railway (our subway here, which is still a solitary line until perhaps NYC government decides to open the line along the north shore that faces New Jersey).
I’ve since then learned a lot about this neighborhood that even has a book written on it {Images of America: Stapleton}, which I bought even it’s over $20 as I felt so proud of living in this neighborhood. It’s fascinating to check and discover a lot of the houses pictured in the book that are still standing. As the Daily News has reported on it, Stapleton is where prospective real estate buyers may get to purchase their next properties if they know what they’re doing.
It’s an interesting neighborhood that deserves a look-see trip from all curious and adventurous visitors of NYC. Part of it is called ‘Stapleton Heights‘, which I think is a way to differentiate it from the housing projects that have been built in the same neighborhood in the 60s and which some residents have been giving it a bad name. They don’t know that they ought to be proud to have well-maintained, nice looking really old houses here that are lived in by single or dual families. But should I even be bothered by all these pettiness? I know a lot of NYC’s neighborhoods, even in Manhattan’s highly desirable neighborhoods (e.g. East Village, Upper East Side), that have lots of housing projects, too (and I’m talking from experience as I personally know people who live in these so-called housing projects). For now, I’m happy I’m here and able to lead an interesting life of a creative person who owns and runs his small business here; I live in a century old house where my bedroom’s at least 4 times bigger than the last room I had in Chinatown‘s East Broadway. Of course, amenities are not comparable with those found in most NYC’s neighborhood but just the same, the quality of my life here is better. I’ve been here for 2 winters now and I plan to stay as long as I am able to do so.
Related articles
- Staten Island NY Neighborhoods (henrysetaro.wordpress.com)
- Staten Island’s Secret Oasis (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)
