Posted on 01/02/2005 1:38:00 AM PST by nickcarraway
NASCAR promoters hoping to build a huge racetrack on Staten Island say they can manage traffic, but critics wonder if they're just going around in circles.
The 80,000-seat, $550 million stadium would be built in the northwest corner of the borough, between two chronically choked highways and near the notoriously slow two-lane Goethals Bridge.
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Franzrebs owned the stables. There's housing there now
"...on a trapline..." Maybe a trotline or a limbline even juglines but trapline is for furry animals and PETA people.
I wasn't sure of the spelling, but they were neighbors of my aunt and uncle over on Hardt Blvd. I've been off the Island for a long time so my knowledge is very dated, but I still have very fond feeling for my time there.
I hung out at the stables for a time as a kid. I lived on Hoyt Ave. My sister still lives on the island and I go back every year or so. It's nothing like it was when I was a kid. Was back in October for a funeral. Couldn't live there now.
Was the funeral at Casey's? Old family friends. Jackie Casey and his two sister were people I kind of hung out with. I was kind of a regular at the Hofbrau, Red Lantern, Frank Tusso's, etc, etc.
One thing I do remember about the area their talking about building this track at was the terrible odor coming across from the refinery's from Bayonne.
Nope, Harmon's on Forest Ave. Been there too many times in the last few years as the last generation of family passes on.
Didn't hang at any of those places.
Did used to go to the stock car races at Weissglas in Port Richmond quite often. Entered a demolition derby there once, what a hoot!
Oh, yeah, I remember the stink. There was a riding stable out near the Goethal's bridge we went to not long before I left the Island for good. I remember watching the expressway construction from there.
NASCAR won't be out any money, but these Staten Island loons should ask the proprietors of the Chicago Motor Speedway project what happens when you build an ill-advised racetrack in a top-5 market.
There was an employee at Harmon's who still lives right near PS 45 who remembers everything and everybody from that area and time. His name is escaping me right now, but he was a Catholic school veteran and I'm sure you would have known him. He had a couple of older brothers if I remember correctly. We all used to hang out at the Carvel at Bard & Forest before we discovered bars.
oops, replied to myself in #49 instead of to you
Shows how much you know!
Staten Island seceded from New Jersey back in 1994, when the citizens there decided to hold a plebiscite on whether or not to declare themselves an independent republic.
I believe their current president is Mr. Guy V. Molinari.
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
You left off the smiley face. Staten Island is, and has been a borough of NYC for the sixty years I've been alive and for a long time before that.
The talk of secession went nowhere. Don't know if Molinari is still in office, but Staten Island has always had a Borough President
What a joke. A NASCAR race is far more about the party than the so called racing (real race cars do not have restrictor plates or engines more old fashioned than comparable production vehicles). There are more than 250 RVs in the pits alone. Without a full infield, the place will die.
There is no way people can get to this Roller Derby in style, or will even attempt it more than once.
Husband of RINO-turned-Dim, Susan, right? I met her once when she was standing on a street corner near Lincoln Center asking women for their votes because she had come out as a Pro-Choice Republican. I told her that's why she wouldn't be getting my vote. And if I remember correctly, Guy Molinari was a McCain supporter. Boo.
There is no way I would attempt to drive a full size (Class A) RV across any of the 3 bridges from New Jersey to Staten Island. The lanes on those bridges are almost too narrow for car traffic, let alone an RV. They're also under almost constant reconstruction.
I've always taken Guy to be a bit of an eccentric, as far as politics go.
The most notable accomplishment of his daughter, Susan-as far as I can tell-was being elected the minority "leader" of the New York City Council.
Of course, this title wasn't all that impressive, considering the fact that she was the only Republican member at the time.
Daughter? Oh. My error. Whoops!
Get yer own danged tagline, Brohamie. Or do I need to think up one FOR you? :-)
So9
I lived on Victory Boulevard across from Siver Lake in the 60's.
Uhh, how long did it take you to come to this conclusion? There's no foolin' you..right?
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