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...finally was closed as the unusually heavy ice submerged or moved navigational buoys. No one wanted to risk yet another major oil-tanker disaster. Icebreakers rammed their curved prows against ice up to 18 in. thick to keep the Hudson open as far north as Albany. Surprisingly, the faithful Staten Island ferry kept moving Manhattan workers in comfort to their jobs across the windswept harbor...
...Carter and the radical changes he might make. Nobody really knows what he will do." Carter's strong religious beliefs also come in for criticism, though mostly from Ford supporters on the panel; 20% of them raised it as an issue. But Claire Briones, a liberal Democrat from Staten Island, N.Y., argued that even if Carter "might get carried away because of his religious beliefs, his common sense will take over and guard...
...home on the sooty sidewalks of New York as on the red clay of Plains. They attended plays and parties, shopped at Bonwit's and Bergdorf's, held a family dinner at Mamma Leone's, munched pastrami and corned beef at a delicatessen, rode the Staten Island ferry and the Circle Line around Manhattan and artfully revealed and concealed themselves as the press and crowds of curious, friendly people dogged their every step. It was almost as if the Carters were throwing a party and New York was invited...
...Yorkers watched helplessly from housetops and quays (spyglasses were in great demand) while General Howe took three leisurely and triumphant days to establish his armies on the green shores of Staten Island. Tents gradually dotted the countryside...
...when he came ashore, and his red-coated infantrymen soon found friends for themselves. A British officer commented cheerfully, "The fair nymphs of this isle are in wonderful tribulation ... A girl cannot step into the bushes to pluck a rose without running the most imminent risk of being ravished." Staten Island's 400 militiamen, who had been called up by Washington to defend the island, grounded their muskets and obligingly swore allegiance to the Crown. That oath was administered by New York's newly returned Royal Governor William Tryon, who had to spend recent months in the sanctuary...