Staten Island

Friend and I went to Staten Island on Saturday, since that is a borough we hadn't yet seen, and because we both appreciate the need for random adventuring, and because we heard you can get $2 beers on the (free) ferry. It was windy and cold and hilly and very suburban but scummy at the same time. We stopped locals on the street to ask them where we should go if we wanted to see or eat something, and they all said, "Back to Manhattan." Friend says that we should give Staten Island to New Jersey, in exchange for the Nets.

We did find a great thrift store - the kind with items that you will clutch as you fall to the floor, laughing so hard you're trying not to pee. For example, friend found a tie-dyed, zodiac-themed Long Beach shirt - wider than it was long - to wear to the two houseparties in Brooklyn that night.