T&T: Staten Island

[LRZeitlin@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/4/06 12:00:44 AM, 
trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com writes:


> In a message dated 9/3/06 12:38:47 PM, kfredden@verizon.net writes:
> 
> 
> > Someone was been pulling your leg with that 'information'. Staten Island
> > most
> > certainly does not have a mean height of 4' above MSL.
> >
> 

I apologize to Kevin about my disparagement of Staten Island. It's the 
borough that don't get no respect. Most New Yorkers won't admit that it is even part 
of New York City. They think it belongs to New Jersey. It votes Republican 
too. When I first moved there to be close to my future wife, I thought I had 
never left Indiana. Cows grazed in fields along the roads. Some houses had 
privies instead of plumbing. Every morning I spent a full nickel to take the Staten 
Island ferry to my job in Gotham. After a day in the overheated cauldron of 
Manhattan it was a relief to come home to my bucolic rural paradise and watch 
the cows chew their cuds.

Incidentally, Great Kills is the best natural small boat harbor in the entire 
New York area.

Sorry again Kevin.

Larry Z