{"id":2126,"date":"2007-02-21T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/somewhere_diedrich_knickerbocker_rolls_in_his_grave.html"},"modified":"2007-02-21T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T18:03:55","slug":"somewhere_diedr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/somewhere_diedr.html","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere Diedrich Knickerbocker Rolls In His Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

And they try to act like Staten Island is the forgotten borough<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mayor Michael Bloomberg tripped yesterday over the old chestnut about how Staten Island became a part of New York City, instead of New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a news conference in Brooklyn, Hizzoner — originally from Massachusetts — mixed in a little mythology with his New York history.<\/p>\n

Trailing off on a tangent about the origins of the Island, Bloomberg told the crowd that in the late 1600s, a governor used a boat race to settle a dispute over whether Staten Island should be part of New York or New Jersey.<\/p>\n

“He set up a race — I forget whether it was rowing or sailing — around Staten Island, and New York won,” Bloomberg said. “And so we’ve got the great borough of Staten Island as part of New York rather than part of New Jersey.”<\/p>\n

But the story is purely apocryphal.<\/p>\n

“It is absolutely a myth,” said Carlotta DeFillo, librarian at the Staten Island Historical Society. “It is a lovely, persistent myth, but it is a myth.” Ms. DeFillo said the origin of the oft-repeated legend is unclear, but it has been traced as far back as The New York Evening Post in 1873 and has popped up in other written histories since then.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And they try to act like Staten Island is the forgotten borough: Mayor Michael Bloomberg tripped yesterday over the old chestnut about how Staten Island became a part of New York City, instead of New Jersey. Speaking at a news conference in Brooklyn, Hizzoner — originally from Massachusetts — mixed in a little mythology with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}