The price of independence will not be cheap. Will it be worth it? To get out from under the thumb of City Hall radical left-adherents who despise the conservative-minded Staten Islanders and enjoy making life miserable for them, I think so.
Tired of being treated like second-class citizens and angry over migrants being bussed to shelters in their borough, Staten Island taxpayers are demanding secession from New York City.
At first I was leery about a separation. But after extensive campaigning in Staten Island, I realized it is different from the four inner city boroughs.If those burbs can have home-rule, why not Staten Island?On Election Day 1894 voters in the New York’s metropolitan area approved the consolidation of five boroughs into the "Greater City of New York.
After a 1989 Supreme Court decision declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional, the fears of Staten Island residents escalated.And they were right. Staten Island’s piece was valued at $83 billion while Manhattan’s came in at $443 billion, Brooklyn, $361 billion, Queens, $325 billion, the Bronx $78 billion.
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