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Eddie P's avatar

One of my favorite Staten Island neighborhoods, which still has an active shopping strip along New Dorp Lane near the railway station. Funny that the old Shop Rite in New Dorp doubled as post-Armageddon Los Angeles (Super Duper Mart!) in Amazon's excellent "Fallout" television series. Staten Island plays so many different towns in film and TV, but rarely plays itself. Most shows set on SI are filmed elsewhere for some reason.

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I grew up on Long Island right around the corner from the LI Game Farm. They used to do face painting there for Halloween and around Christmastime you could feed little pellets to reindeer, so I have a lot of nice memories. But also, animals were constantly escaping; I would routinely run into errant peacocks while riding my bike. One day I noticed "Lost Giraffe" signs taped up around the neighborhood because apparently the farm's giraffe had escaped. The giraffe was found a few days later but I've always wondered, how the heck do you lose a giraffe??

Anyways - congrats on the fellowship and upcoming milestones!

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