Staten Island

Ever had a really pissy, uptight little sister? The kind that, even if you're both from the same dirt poor family, she's convinced she's classy and refined and too good for soy-loaf for a third time this week? Well, that's basically Staten Island. Shunted off into the water where most everyone else wishes it would float off, but it never does- Staten Island is this giant residential turd floating in the New York City punchbowl. Don't believe me? Go there. If you can. It'll take you a ferry ride and part of your soul for ticketing, and once you get over there most of the place is nothing but housing. And not affordable housing. No, it's pretty much all AA and up, with so much of it being waterfront property. Worst still, Staten Island has a habit of threatening to secede any time the rest of NYC wants to do something it doesn't like. They even threw a tantrum ages back over a connective bridge to make getting there easier. (The bridge got built, then destroyed halfway by The Quake and halfway by alleged runners not long thereafter.) People can argue it all they want, but most everyone knows the truth. Staten Island is where corp families and CEOs live to be left the fuck alone, where they don't have to look at the rest of us gutter dwellers. And they'll do damn near anything to protect that peace and privacy.

Supposedly people who live there say the best thing about it is the suburban feel. "Like living in the suburbs, but still in New York!" Just about anyone else with sense will tell you if it's that damn clean and quiet, it ain't New York. Hell, even pompous Broolynites call Staten Islanders stuck up (though that's mostly jealousy that they can't afford to live out there). Staten Island used to be lowkey, but after waves of mainlanders rushed out to scoop up the cheap land, it all became a hot commodity. Not long after that, and The Quake, corp elites liked the sectioned off nature and started to bully, buy out, and steal all of it for themselves. Now anyone who tries to tell you Staten Island is the best part of the city is pretty much openly parading they're some high-end corp member. Good targets for blackmail and kidnapping, and little else.

Did I mention everyone from Staten Island is an asshole? That's not even hyperbole. (Okay, statistically, it probably is, but still.) Need further proof? USA. 2017. 60% of the island voted for Trump. Yeah. And a lot of them are still proud about it. Have fun washing that one out of your mouths.

Owning Organization

Manhattan Inc., Consortium