Even as we take the ferry over to Staten Island now, the water passage makes the psychic distance seem real in a way that a subway ride between Brooklyn and Manhattan does not. In the ’80s, when the differences were even more palpable. “It really seemed like you went 10 years back in time every time you came home,” she says. “People were just starting to carry around boom boxes as if it was this brand-new thing.”
On the Edge on Staten Island
