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Do we really need a common enemy in order to heal our divisions? | The Old Guy

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The Staten Island Advance

Gary Moore For The Staten Island Advance

MTA’s new ‘did you pay your fare’ effort a joke | Opinion

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has come up with a bonkers new way to try to curb fare evasion. The effort comes as the MTA grapples with...

07.12.2025 10

The Staten Island Advance

Tom Wrobleski

Coming to terms with the death of a beloved community member | The Old Guy

I heard it from a handful of people…“I can’t do another one of these.” It was November and this was the fifth or sixth wake they had attended. But...

06.12.2025 1

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Gary Moore For The Staten Island Advance

On coming to terms with the death of a young, beloved community member | The Old Guy

I heard it from a handful of people…“I can’t do another one of these.” It was November and this was the fifth or sixth wake they had attended. But...

05.12.2025 5

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Gary Moore For The Staten Island Advance

Coming to terms with the death of a young, beloved community member | The Old Guy

I heard it from a handful of people…“I can’t do another one of these.” It was November and this was the fifth or sixth wake they had attended. But...

05.12.2025 5

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Gary Moore For The Staten Island Advance

Why I attended the No Kings demonstration | The Old Guy

Joan and I attended the No Kings demonstration on Oct. 18 right here on Victory Boulevard. The one in Manhattan looked jam packed and neither of us...

29.11.2025 2

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Gary Moore For The Staten Island Advance

Staten Island secession: the good, the bad and the really, really ugly (opinion)

It’s that time again, time for Staten Islanders to start agitating about leaving the City of New York and standing on their own. The reason this...

26.11.2025 1

The Staten Island Advance

Tom Wrobleski

They’re giving up their seats for me on the bus. What’s next? | The Old Guy

It’s official. Joan and I are old. Younger people open doors for us, give up their seats on buses and subways, let us ahead of them on line. It’s...

26.11.2025 1

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Gary Moore For The Staten Island Advance

NYC DOT’s latest Silver Lake Park outrage (opinion)

And you thought you had the perfect shortcut. Ha! Drivers exulted when the city in its infinite wisdom decided to re-open Silver Lake Park Road to...

26.11.2025 2

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Tom Wrobleski

A message to those saying, ‘this is what I voted for’ |The Old Guy

Richard Nixon did not want John Lennon in America during Nixon’s second run for the office of president. He was too afraid that John, who was a...

26.11.2025 2

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Gary Moore For The Staten Island Advance