06/09/2011 02:19 PM
South Shore Residents Insist They Live In Towns, Not Neighborhoods By: Amanda Farinacci
Residents of Staten Island's South Shore insist on calling the places where they live "towns," even though they technically are neighborhoods. NY1's Amanda Farinacci filed the following report. The residents of some of Staten Island's South Shore "neighborhoods" insist that they aren't neighborhoods at all. They say the areas where they live are "towns." "I'm out here 35 years almost and I've always referred to Annadale as the town I live in," said resident Pat Aversano. Twelve neighborhoods make up what is known as the island's South Shore and most residents there refer to their communities the same way. "If you go out to Jersey ‐ Brick township, Howell township, everything is a township ‐ so everybody has their own community and they call it a township," said resident Gary Edwards. "The only thing we don't have is it listed as a township." Technically speaking, the towns aren't towns at all ‐ they are neighborhoods. In fact, all areas of New York City are classified as neighborhoods.
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