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My favourite is Thomas Fitzpatrick:“At approximately 3 a.m. on September 30, 1956, Fitzpatrick, while intoxicated, stole a single engine plane from the Teterboro School of Aeronautics in New Jersey and flew without lights or radio before landing on St. Nicholas Avenue near 191st Street in front of a New York City bar where earlier he had been drinking and made an intoxicated barroom bet that he could travel from New Jersey to New York City in 15 minutes. The New York Times called the flight a "feat of aeroneutics" and a "fine landing". For his illegal flight, he was fined $100 after the plane's owner refused to press charges.On October 4, 1958 just before 1 a.m., Fitzpatrick again intoxicated stole another plane from the same airfield and landed on Amsterdam and 187th street in front of a Yeshiva University building after another bar patron disbelieved his first feat. For his second stolen flight, Judge John A. Mullen sentenced him to six months in prison stating, "Had you been properly jolted then, it’s possible this would not have occurred a second time."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_(pilot)

I’ve lived in both NJ and NYC since 2003. I’ve avoided it as much as possible due to most of the reasons below, but primarily because this borough seems to be disconnected by design.There are no trains that go there from the rest of NYC or from NJ. There are 4 bridges connecting it with the outer world, with 3 of them connected to New Jersey (Bayonne, Elizabeth and Perth Amboy) and one to New York (Brooklyn).Despite such close geographical proximity to New Jersey, Staten Island is legally part of New York. As a result, they are served by the MTA, but commuting from Staten Island to the city is a nightmare unless you live by the ferry and work on Wall Street.Because it’s part of NYC, all of NJTransit bypasses it altogether. It’s much easier to commute to Midtown if you take the train from Trenton, NJ compared to living almost anywhere on Staten Island:The MTA map looks like this, with Staten Island basically an afterthought just like for NJT:As a result, it’s up to the MTA to make sure Staten Islanders are served. So, there’s literally one terrestrial lifeline connecting this borough to Brooklyn:It’s a beautiful engineering masterpiece. This bridge is one of the symbols of New York City. But it’s one thing to admire it as a tourist and another to actually live there and deal with the tolls and traffic.Before Decemeber of 2020 (and for a long time before), there was no way toll to enter Staten Island for free. If you are coming from the Brooklyn side, the toll is $19 for everyone without an NY EZPass ($12) or if you have an NY EZPass and a car registered on Staten Island, then the toll is $6.88 per crossing, provided you make at least 3 trips per month. But it’s always free to leave Staten Island! (Source: NY1)Dec 1, 2020 update: Split tolling is officially in effect. The price to cross the Verrazano is now $9.50 in each direction if you do not have an NY EZPass. It’s now no longer possible to drive from Staten Island into the rest of New York for free unless you are going upstate via New Jersey. According to SILive, The new electronic tolling system -- which is expected to reduce truck traffic while netting the MTA millions of dollars in additional annual revenue -- will split the bridge’s current one-way toll in half and begin charging it in both directions. “The restoration of split tolling will end a 30-year loophole in New York City that will help alleviate congestion on Staten Island, while improving the environment and delivering a modest benefit to the bottom line of public transportation during an unprecedented fiscal crisis,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Pat FoyeI don't know about the rest of you guys, but I definitely won’t be going through Staten Island anymore when going to Brooklyn. So expect even more congestion through the tunnels and GWB, in both directions. On the flip side, whenever I drive from Brooklyn to Trenton, I may just cross via Staten Island and save myself an extra hour+ worth of driving and spend the $9.50.If you are coming from the NJ side, then you are going to pay $16 to enter Staten Island unless you have an NJ EZPass, then the price you pay will be 11.75 or $13.75, depending what time you cross.But wait! Take mass transit you say? It would take well probably two hours, no matter what part of NJ you are coming from. The most optimal route would be to get anywhere where there is a PATH train (Newark, Harrison, Jersey City or Hoboken), get to World Trade, walk down (or take the train) to South Ferry, take the ferry and that’s just getting onto Staten Island. Then what? Take the bus (or buses) and figure out a way to your final destination! Let’s take Elizabeth, a town that borders Staten Island and try to get to the College of Staten Island:Mass transit:Car:This is why people avoid Staten Island. There is no easy way of getting there and definitely no easy way to get around it even if you do get there.The car remains king in much of the US. You can’t live without it in much of NJ and some part of NYC. If you are going to JFK airport from Central NJ, you have a choice: take an hour (or longer) detour through the city (while still paying $16 no matter what, unless you drive all the way to Albany to cross the Hudson for free).As Staten Island is basically seen as an obstacle for most people to get from Brooklyn to New Jersey, it’s developed a lot of its own culture. Usually in the US, the further you go from the cities, the more conservative people get. Well, take a look at how Staten Island works:The New York City neighborhoods that voted for TrumpThis is New Jersey’s version of the same map:I know maps show land only and obviously the North Shore of Staten Island is quite different from the rest of it. I know it from experience and spending quite a bit of time there. But Staten Island overall is a completely different playing field than the rest of the metro area. Here’s how NYC borough breakdown looks (2016):I’ve lived in Trenton, the suburbs and various areas of Jersey City. I’ve also lived in the Bronx and Manhattan. My wife lived in Brooklyn and used to commute to Staten Island to go to school. Trust me on this one, nobody wants to go to Staten Island unless they absolutely must and these are just some of the reasons why. A lot of Staten Island is an industrial wasteland while the inhabited parts are quite different from the urban “grit” of its neighbors like Brooklyn, Manhattan, Jersey City and Elizabeth. Culturally and accessibility-wise, Staten Island is more like Monmouth or Ocean County in NJ rather than it’s immediate neighbors.EDIT:I’ve always been confused as to why Staten Island is so “different” from the rest of the surrounding area, especially since I’ve lived around it but never in it. I lived in Jersey City during the Bayonne Bridge rebuilding project and dated a girl from St George so it was obviously interesting for me to follow the development there. there were talks of expanding the light rail from Staten Island to Bayonne. That project unfortunately made too much sense and never came to fruition. Here’s a bit more about this idea: Hudson–Bergen Light Rail - Wikipedia

What is “reasonable”?Is it “reasonable” that someone with a legally owned firearm, packed away in his stowed luggage, in accordance with airline policy and federal law, should be charged with a felony just because his flight was delayed?Revell v. Port Authority of New York & New JerseyOn March 31, 2005, Revell, a resident of Utah, embarked on a flight from Salt Lake City to Allentown, Pennsylvania, via Minneapolis/St. Paul and Newark, New Jersey. When he arrived at the Northwest Airlines counter in the Salt Lake City Airport, he checked his luggage through to his final destination and declared that, in the luggage, he was carrying an unloaded firearm contained in a locked hard case and ammunition in a separate locked hard case. He signed an orange firearm declaration tag, which was placed inside the locked hard case containing the firearm. That was apparently the last thing on the trip that went as expected. The several mishaps that followed ultimately relate to the accessibility of the firearm and ammunition and are thus key to this dispute.Because his flight into Newark was late, Revell missed his connection from Newark to Allentown. He booked the next flight to Allentown, which was scheduled to leave Newark at 8 p.m. that evening, but, after the airline changed arrangements, the passengers scheduled for that flight were asked to board a bus, instead of a plane, headed for Allentown. Revell got on the bus; however, when he learned that his luggage was not on board, he got off to locate it.By the time he retrieved his luggage, he had missed the bus, and no other connections to Allentown were available. He then went directly to the Newark Airport Sheraton Hotel in a hotel shuttle, taking his luggage with him. The driver of the shuttle van placed Revell's luggage, which contained the locked hard case containers, in the rear storage area of the van, which was not immediately accessible from the passenger compartment where Revell was seated. Revell stayed at the hotel overnight but did not open either of the locked containers during his stay.The next morning, he took the hotel's airport shuttle back to the Newark Airport and, again, his luggage was placed out of his reach in the rear of the shuttle. Upon arriving at the airport around 8:30 a.m., he proceeded to the ticket counter to check his luggage and declared that he was carrying an unloaded firearm in a locked hard case and ammunition in a separate locked hard case. Revell was told to take his luggage to the Transportation Security Administration ("TSA") area so that it could be x-rayed. After the luggage went through the x-ray machine, the TSA agent at the other end of the machine took the hard cases out and asked Revell for the key to them, which Revell provided. The TSA agent opened the cases using Revell's key and removed the firearm and ammunition. The orange declaration sheet from Salt Lake City was still in the case with the firearm.About twenty minutes later, several Port Authority officers, including Officer Erickson, escorted Revell to an area away from other passengers where they questioned him about the firearm and ammunition. Revell explained that he had declared his weapon and ammunition, and that he was merely passing through New Jersey en route to Allentown, Pennsylvania. He also showed the officers his Utah concealed firearm permit and his driver's license. When Erickson questioned Revell about why he had the firearm, Revell explained that he was traveling to Pennsylvania to pick up a car to bring back to Utah and that "he was going to need the weapon for protection" as he drove the car home. (App. at 33.) Revell also informed Erickson that, upon missing his flight the day before, he had taken possession of his bag with the firearm in it and had gone to a hotel in Newark to stay for the night. Erickson asked Revell whether he had authority to carry the firearm in Pennsylvania, but Revell did not respond.Erickson arrested Revell for possession of a handgun without a permit in violation of N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2C:39-5(b) and for possession of hollow-point ammunition in violation of N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2C:39-3(f). Revell was handcuffed, held overnight at the Port Authority jail, and then transferred to the Essex County, New Jersey, Jail, where he was incarcerated for three days until he was released on bond. Four months later, on August 2, 2005, the Essex County prosecutor administratively dismissed all of the charges against him. However, Revell's firearm, ammunition, holster, locks, and hard cases, which were seized at the time of his arrest, were not returned until July 24, 2008, more than two years after the ill-fated trip and approximately a year after he filed his amended complaint in this action.