EPIC 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 BIKE TOUR 😲 

Hi Mary Jane , Yes ! Staten Island is a timeless & safe place to spend a day enjoying an escape from the city. Great vlog. Very inclusive.

I sure do enjoy this bike ride. Having Kyle along did not take away from these amazing tours. Mary Jane, you really do an excellent job on these. Watched all 50 minutes and felt like I was with you. A wonderful way to relax and enjoy the outdoors. 👍🏼 🚲 🦌🇮🇹🇺🇸❤️

Wow! Amazing trip. Staten Island could be not the forgotten borough but the best keep secret in NYC.

I always tell everyone who is visiting NYC for the first time to take a round trip on the Staten Island Ferry because you get a great view of the harbor, the statue of liberty and the city skyline, all for free!

You're right...that was an epic bike ride! It was great you had someone to ride with. Really enjoyed seeing parts of SI I hadn't seen before. Great video, MJ!

I love this video it’s great to see these parts of Staten Island . There are many great sites here .

Wonderful! You brought me nearly an hour to NY ...-

So many nice surprises and positive comments by you on this ?epic" bike trip that has been so enjoyable for us also to watch!

OMG!!!!!! When you speak Italian Mary Jane, Kyle and you did such an awesome job on your bike tour of Staten Island. Thank you for the history lesson, and all the great tips on this "not forgotten" borough.

Very nice bike ride, greetings

This to me is Staten Island: LOL. Graffiti, laundry mats, bakeries, no underground subways, best pizza you'll taste and the bonus it is not too far from Manhattan. Nice video! It was fun to watch your POV of SI! :)

You create beautiful videos and the music taste is sooo on point! Brava!

Another awesome video. Ty so much. I did Staten Island earlier this year with my friend. 👍🏽❤️👍🏽❤️👍🏽

Awesome video!! 🙌🏾

Cycling is so fun 😻😻 enjoy Mary Jane

hey !!! What Amazing Bike Ride to Staten Island !!! your video was perfect .... Congrats !!! Have a very Good Week... !!!

great video. kyle is great too. so easy going

Hi Mary Jane! I was introduced to your channel on Here Be Barr and Action Kid. I visited your page and saw this video. Glad you visited my hometown! Did you see St. Peter's Church? I would love to give you advice for a future visit !

Very, very, very good!!! Thank you

wow, so lucky you guys found the latourette trail, not many people know about it its a gem in staten island, so much wildlife. Theres so many hidden trails on staten island i love it.

I really enjoyed your bike ride narrative. You are so down to earth, and you have an amazing personality. You're an inspiration when it comes to your love for life. keep up the fantastic work that you do. Kyle wasn't too bad either.

Thanks for visiting my Home island.

That was very interesting thank you Mary Jane

Two most gorgeous Italians in NYC. You and that bridge!

Manhattan was built on top of a landfill as well. But it was so cool to see you riding in the trails I ride

Never thought I’d see a Staten Island video on RU-vid

Awesome vid as usual MJ.

Excellent adventure trip, Staten Island finally exposed !! cheers from Uruguay

This is amazing timing! I am visiting SI tomorrow!

Hi Mary Jane, What a beautiful video. I wish I wash there with my bike. My compliments, great vlog.

Lived right across from the Midland Beach Boardwalk for most of the 1970’s. The beach area even in summer wasn’t very crowded. The changes they have made were interesting. That bike path all along the shore from Great Kills to the Boardwalk in Midland Beach was not there when I lived on Staten Island. The neighborhoods along that shore heavily hit by super storm Sandy. Those nature bicycle trails are amazing. I really enjoyed the video. Ciao’.

The dump used to smell so bad during the hot summer. Also angelina's is so good lol, still tons of italians on staten island.

Wow!!! Tanks for the sigthing and history

Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn is beautiful..you should check it out and it has parrots living in the gothic entrance.

Hi Mary Jane!!! Greetings from Rhode Island!!! Love your videos and your channel!! I just subscribed!!! I just saw your video with Actionkid regarding your first visit to Little Italy!! Loved that one too!! Also, you're very beautiful as well!! Keep making your wonderful videos!! Mille Grazie!!!

This was a great video. Next time you are in S.I. you should check out the many Italian specialty food stores like Pastosa and others...

Very nice video. Thanks. You are becoming an American. Pretty soon you will return to Italy and they won’t understand you (!) It happens to everyone eventually unless you go back a lot. And, of course, English is pretty handy as you travel the world. Remember, there is a whole hemisphere out there waiting for you. From Qikiqtaaluk to Tierra del Fuego. As you cycle around Lima, Peru and São Paulo, Brazil you can explain to us why so many people have Italian names. For your next set of serious videos you could explore the whole waste management life cycle. Things are better than when I was young and the Cuyahoga River caught fire, but we still have work to do.

That laundromat at 9:42 is like a few blocks away from my house because I live in si to

The fresh Kills Landfill was opened in 1936, and is an unlined landfill built on wetlands, with all kinds of stuff leeching into the groundwater. It's been blamed for the abnormally high cancer rates, particularly leukemia, in the neighborhoods bordering it. Turning landfils into parks is something that's fairly common, as you can't build on them for at least a century. It's done by "capping" the landfill with at least 15-20 feet of clean soil. Fresh Kills isn't the only former landfils they've done this to in the city Flushing Meadow's/Corona in Queens also used to be a Landfill.

I just subscribed :) I honestly love your content and your style. Keep it up

what a shame, Mary Jane! you were in my hood and I missed it. You rode right by my street at one point. Feel free to reach out if you come back to SI.

Bellissimo

I enjoyed the ride along. 🚲😁

Yes, the NYC Marathon starts in SI, at the foot of the bridge AND it is the STEEPEST INCLINED of the 26.2 miles BUT most runners don't feel it because they are so PUMP UP to start the race with 50,000 other runners.

BTW ... the New York Runner's Club has a SI Half Marathon (typically in October) that runs through 13.1 miles of your bike route.

The Verrazzano Bridge also because it is so long it follows the curvature of the earth.

This is a great example to spent free time. Thanks for sharing this video :)

For me this vlog was full of surprises. Who would have thought that you can find such natural beauty and countryside / small town atmosphere so close to Manhattan, and such nice bike paths? Even some beautiful beaches! So good and characteristic of you to also talk about your environmental concerns about the landfill that is going to be turned into a recreation park. Pity there’s no bike lane on the Verrazzano bridge! It would have been nice if you could have taken the bridge on your way back to Manhattan. In the Italian restaurant you talk about having trouble speaking Italian. Do you mean that you’re losing the ability to find the right Italian words? I think that comes back immediately when you’re visiting your family in Italy (hopefully very soon! 🙂).

I never heard it called the "Narrows" bridge. Verrazzano was always part of the name.

I hope your channel grow faster :)

43:01 Also One More Fun Fact If You Live in Staten Island you can Take advantage of the MTA Staten Island Resident Discount Toll of $5.50 for the Verrazano-narrows Bridge

As a kid used to go the city dump next to Kennedy Airport, now a neighborhood according to the maps. Since it was close to Aqueduct Racetrack there were abandoned cars useful for their copper wiring. (Suggestion: if you're gonna win big on a bet, don't broadcast it.) Initially, I wondered why there were dog paws and tails over the place, until one day a station wagon pulls up and lets out four geese, dare I say a gackle. Within seconds up from the debris hundreds if not a thousand rats pile on them. Less than half a minute the pile slowly disappears. I walked over to observe only webbed duck feet. Moral of the story: Rats. If you live on a landfill you're gonna have rats, brown tunneling, Black Norwegian (think of the Plagues), rodents In addition to seepage into the ground water table for a distance downgrade and air pollution. And, if you notice fire hydrants sinking into the ground or cracks from your house settling unevenly, check your property appraisal office for any pre-existing surveys or plot maps. With people leaving the city, restaurants closed, the subway rodents will start looking for food in a wider area. Get a cat(s). Long digression ahead. With the current situation developing and the shrinking city government buget, letting people to fend for themselves from two and four legged rats, some lessons I learned from the city, Rats are smarter and craftier than most people. They learn and adapt quickly so if you put out a trap they'll be a step or two ahead in avoiding it. They have very good hearing and sense of smell. While appearing near sighted tactically traveling close to walls, they have sight beyond our spectrum, ultraviolent I believe, for night vision. Ha, they own the night. Use an ultraviolet light in the dark to find their urine trail markings they navigate by. Or, for the previous tenant's nocturnal proclivities. So, put talcum powder along wall baseboards to track them and identify their type of footprints. First put out rolled-up balls of peanut butter and oatmeal, their favorite food. Wait a few days, four or more, until their guard is down then using disposable rubber gloves put in rodent poison. Note, the two common rats, brown and black, have their own food preferences. Yea, it might stink but Hantavirus is a life long ailment. No fun. It's iffy buying traps as they'll learn quickly. Consult your local USDA or university for information. They're usually a wealth of free pragmatic information for your area. Rats avoid the scent of cats. Better, have cats. Or, hire a professional Pest Control business since the longer you wait the worst and dire the infestation will get. Don't wanna wake with your nose and ear cartilage chewed off. It's true.

Great video! Staten Island looks quiet, but still interesting. I love these tours! What is that beautiful piano piece that you used in the Snug Harbour segment?

15:15 The problem with closing Fresh Kills was the garbage has to go somewhere. It's now either exported to other states (the City now has a whole fleet of Garbage Ships) or dumped a few hundred miles offshore in the Atlantic. Supposedly it all sinks to the bottom.

Look out MJ! There’s anarchy everywhere! Lol. Love from Bayside, Queens.

The water is for luck and safe trip. We do that in Balkans too

25 miles good lord.

🤗🤗🤗 beautiful

Another fun fact, Staten Island's Todt Hill is the highest spot on the Eastern Seaboard.

"My crotch is on FIRE" ...OMG, that was one funny line.

14:30 In the town I grew up in they also converted the local landfill into a park.

Yeah, you came to my borough! And you did a great job of actually getting to some of the nice places here. So many of the Staten Island vlogs I see totally miss the mark.

nice place

wonderful palace

Just an FYI, Staten Island is known as the borough of parks. There are over 175

Did you know SI is the only borough besides Manhattan to have a Wall Street? It's a little 3-4 block long affair near the ferry.

Humber bridge in hull in England is the bridge thats longer

Starting at 43:17, Front Street that was part of my regular bike commute to work via the ferry (nopw I get to work from home except for one day a week). Also the Alice Austen House (historical colonial era dwelling, once home to a posthumously famous Staten Island photographer who inherited the family home where she lived from the late 1800s to the 1950s) was right there, you should have stopped by (unless you did at another part of the video? I haven't watched the whole thing beginning to end.) While you were here, as an Italian, did you have any opportunity to investigate the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum? If you haven't, neither have I, even though I've lived close by to it and have lived here for most of my 53 years. Still, Giusseppe Garibaldi lived there for a while when he was in exile, with his friend, Antonio Meucci, reputedly the inventor of the telephone before Alexander Graham Bell stole the credit (so some people claim, I don't wanna get involved). That was also not far from minute 43:17.

LIKE from Midland Beach (10306) 31:33 It's about 5 mins walking from my house. I seat at this bench often... )))

I just read that SI has the highest percentage of Italian Americans in NY, so you should feel right at home there.

Do they have bike rentals for tourists?

Mary Jane have you ever seen the globe in Queens and the lemon ice King is around there to..I used to live in the neiborhood..you'll love it

Such a pleasure to watch this video MJ, you constantly provide a way of doing things, that really agrees with how I like to watch video's!. At first I thought that 50 minutes was going to be quite a lot to take in, but of course it wasn't really, and as usual, I never got bored in the slightest!. Staten Island is certainly a very beautiful, and interesting destination, and is certainly the kind of place that agrees with me very much as well!. I think it's awesome that you can take this ferry for free, and certainly beats the alternative, of having to pay mega bucks for the bridge trip! (it suddenly occurred to me, that maybe the bridge is subsidizing the ferry?). I think, if you were a local though, the cost of getting to the Island by car, would be a constant bugbear!. One thing I was wondering about, is about the subscriber that you met... is she an Italian girl too? (I'm afraid that the audio was pretty bad in that section, and I couldn't quite hear what she said, but she did seem to have that accent!). I was wondering if that cemetery, was perhaps a war grave cemetery, as it would be quite unusual for civilians to be buried this way (whereas the government would pay the cost, to having these highly regimented plots, looking perfect, for all time!). As for that giant landfill site... turning it into a park, is generally something pretty commonly done here, and I would have thought, probably also in many other parts of the world too!. I'm not sure what the alternative would be really, as you certainly wouldn't want to use the land for any structural use, as there's always the possibility of some subsidence happening. Pretty sad though, that there's human remains involved... a landfill's not the place for that!. Anyway, a really lovely video MJ, I actually watched it twice, and with pleasure!.

Looked great at one point your music sounded like it came out of the movie the godfather....you still should put your pics in the relive app...it will show each stop woth pics as you gp around the circle

Verizon Bridge! I can really understand that the pronouncation of italian names is sometimes difficult for the New Yorkers.

great video!!! is he really your husband the guy at the beginning of the video? if so lucky him😁

10:10 @What a shame Mary Jane you were viewing a national cemetery also known as a military cemetery. National cemeteries are typically uniform and kept cleaner than normal American cemeteries where graves/headstones are not uniform. Great info about the landfill and new park being built on the island.

Hi Mary Jane... just saw some of your live feed "LIVE FROM NYC 🔴 At The Park" today. Thank you. Quite enjoyable. You looked familiar and then I remembered I saw you trying New York style pizza on video a while ago; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lryR0OTvQp8.html 🍕🍕 I used to live in southern Connecticut and so spent a lot of time in NYC over the years, but not too much in Staten Island though. Might have to get down there sometime on my bicicletta (my favorite way to get around). Staten Island looks rather inviting. My father's father came from Verona (actually Avesa I believe) to NYC in 1905. Was your hometown up that way? I thought you had mentioned Venice in your live feed. I've subscribed. Keep up the great videos 😎

ayyeee im from staten island

It only has 1 letter "Z" because Robert Moses (the builder) thought it took up too much space on the traffic signs.

Kyle is a good looking guy.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Hey, Mary Jane, the blog link in your video description doesn't work. You need to remove the "www" from the address, otherwise it goes to a generic Wix placeholder, rather than the "New updates soon" version you meant to link. I've run Wix sites for bosses before, so I know this happens a lot with Wix. Thanks for the beautiful bike tour, by the way!

0:30 Gotta try that water thing. 😂

I grew up on both sides of the Verrazano. When I lived on Staten Island, I lived just off of McClean Ave. What was your opinion of SI? Thanks for the vid! :)

"A little bit american, too." 😂

Bellissimo inizio Mary! Ma tuo marito è italiano?

It's always been called the Verrazzano. I never remember anyone ever calling it the "Narrows" bridge. Where did you hear that?

Your husband seems like a very nice industrious guy. old 70's Turkish music rules.. About you forgetting your Italian It'd be a shame to lose your Italian language(essence). The long silence in the video upon spotting the dear displayed great reverence (like a movie might)... This is proof that taking little detours can lead to wonderful discoveries in nature... Staten Island is the borough that everyone talks shit about because its the most racist but it actually has some of the most stunning nature around. The geological structure of Staten Island is mad diverse which accounts for the hilly terrains..When you reached the beach i was astounded by the contrast of scenery, it felt so surreal! you always ask the right questions and make the most appropriate commentary.. the kind of interaction you had with the Russian woman is what makes these adventures feel rounded. Most of my social life consists of talking to strangers, I live for those moments. Verizon Bridge LMAO. Yo did you just school your guest with the Verra-ZZANO bridge knowledge? when he crossed his arms, that meant you gave him too many fun facts LOL!! Kyle needs a geared bike. Your friend Beatrice is really cute and I wanted to hear her talk more. I don't think having a guest interrupted the smooth flow of your videos, just depends on the quality of conversation. This one of your greatest videos ever! (i havent seen all your videos to be fair) . I'm learning so much about my city and now I feel like biking in Pelham Bay Park or something before it gets too cold. You are officially my favorite RU-vidr! You're a treasure trove of facts, knowledge and history and you deliver it concisely with equal parts passion and charm. You're worldly like me. You're inspiring me to finally take that European trip to Spain, France and Italy that I'm dying to do (never been to Europe). I'm saving up for a GoPro so I can start to do walking street photography/talking to strangers videos.. Great job! I didn't think I'd watch all 50 minutes in one sitting but the visuals were so new and interesting to me as a NYer.

lol u went in front of my house

Mary Jane: Did you learn about Giovanni da Verrazzano in school in Italy?

Have you moved to New York now?

@21:17 He's not at all scared of you, if he was his tail would be up. Deer and animals in general in the city and suburbs are not scared of people at all, they have no reason to be people are not a threat to them. In my yard in suburban Northern Virginia I see deer, foxes, skunks, raccoons, the odd coyote, all sorts of birds of prey, none of them are afraid of people. A few weeks a raccoon walked right across our back yard one evening with my wife and I sitting within maybe ten feet (~3 meters). He glanced up at us maybe once then went along and didn't care.

Bella Nyc

I've been living here for 11 years I never have any problems so far I m ove here with someone do I have a life but she choose not to stay she went back to Harlem . I'm 10 minutes to beach and soccer field

The ferry area is crap, and Empire Outlets doesn't really make it any nicer.. It's a shame that's what most new comers see. I don't like the TA recommended bike path b/c it kind of takes you through the rough areas first. Going the opposite direction down Bay St towards Ft Wadsworth and the beach gets you out of there faster. You also miss areas like Silver lake, High Rock, and the south island parks. Great Kills (south of Cedar Grove where you entered,) Wolfs Pond, and Bloomingdale parks each have their own charm. As for the dump, they did the same thing in Brooklyn shore, building a park over garbage. Also, the boardwalk burnt down 3-4 times, and will also be torn down one more time for the Army to build a storm wall starting next year. In any case, hope you enjoyed Staten Island, and come back soon!

I have bee nto staten island museum. also the mafia dumped a lot of there kills on this island

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11:00 American graves are mostly uniform because Americans don't want to think about death and so don't make as many arrangements for it. Their family is then left to decide and will usually choose the easiest, least-choice-effort option presented to them which happens to be mass-produced, and thus cheapest, cookie-cutter grave markers. Older grave-yards, with most graves before say 1940, will have a greater diversity of markers including some really large and fabulous ones, since death was more common then and people were more religious and thus more conscious of what they wanted after their deaths.

No way this would be part of the city in Europe. It would just be countryside. I get the impression that actual New York is just Manhattan with suburban areas around it.