1 guy is in SI for 6 weeks and the other person is here for 26 years. - Status Island

Okay, before we go to the real interview, they say they just they're just here for like one month. How long are you here? >> Month, six weeks. >> A month or six weeks. Where in which >> How's it How many Bum learn there? >> 47 48. >> Wow. How many more yeshivas do you know of over here? >> Um there's one in Niles. I don't know what what it's called. There's one. I don't know. A couple. >> Okay. How do you like it? How do you where did you live before? >> Flatbush. >> How do you compare stat with flatbush? [gasps] >> Someone over there [laughter] should say it's better. I'll tell you the truth. It's quiet. It's empty. Flatbush. I don't know. It's it's it's totally it's it's it's totally different. There's no there's no comparison. >> No comparison. >> Two different. It's a different >> Yeah. I mean, it's not the correct way to use, but yeah. [laughter] >> A different barrier. >> Yeah. A different barrier. You should have them on more often. >> Okay. So, you're saying it's a yeshiv over here. >> Is it a yeshiv? I wouldn't say that. >> There are a lot of yeshivas. >> There's a lot of yeshivas, but it's totally different from from the flatbush Muslim. >> Okay. >> You know what Muslim means? >> Of course. >> All right. Just making sure. >> Okay. A Muslim could be a Muslim also. >> That's definitely true. Muslim is Muslim. >> That's it. >> Can I just ask a question? What's going to happen with this video? >> We'll put it out to people who want to know information about that line. >> Okay. That's perfectly fine with me. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> Okay, now we'll go to the main interview over here. Hi. What's your name? >> Yonyi Lake. >> Okay. So, I'm from Status Island and I just want to ask you know people's experience about Staten Island. How long do you live here? >> 26 and a half years. >> Oh, really? That's a long time. >> I was born here. >> Wow. Okay. And how has it changed since then? >> How's it changed? When there were only two here when when I was born, Rabbi Isacson and Rabbi Pollock. It was definitely a a different uh much different place. We didn't have uh we didn't have any supermarkets. We had one place called Irwins. If you if you're from Staten Island, you know Irwins. And then we had one takeout place, but it died out after a couple of years. >> The takeout place was called Island Kosher. It was called No, Kosher. Kosher Island. Now we have Island Kosher in the same place that it used to be. >> Nice. Nice. How about um commute? You you work in >> I work in Brooklyn. I work in Brooklyn and Elizabeth. They go back and forth. >> How's the traffic now compared to like compared to like 15 years ago? 20 years. >> Much worse. >> It's getting worse. >> Much worse. Elizabeth, when I went to high school in Elizabeth, it was like no matter what it was like 12 to 14 minutes. Now it's always like 30. >> So why don't you move back to Brooklyn? I mean, not back. I mean, why? >> What? >> Why do I want to move to Brooklyn? Because I want to be in San Island. >> Why? What's better? >> I want parking. >> Parking. That's it. You got That's the main thing. >> What do you do? Where do you work? >> I'm a therapist. I work in JC and Elizabeth and then I work in uh private practice in Brooklyn. >> So how how long does it take to drive from me to Elizabeth? >> Uh 25 minutes 30 minutes >> and then from Elizabeth you go to Brooklyn or a different day? >> Elizabeth I go to Brooklyn every day. >> Very nice. Anything else you want to add? People should know what what's something that idea you have to make something better. What service that we're missing? Something >> what service that we're need. Need a cafe. >> Oh, somebody just opened one. >> Somebody just opened the dairy place. The dairy place. the [snorts] sil silk. >> Follow Status Island, you'll know. Yeah, silk spoon. >> Silk's great. But it's not it's not like a cafe where you sit down in the morning with a bagel and a coffee and and a toast or something like that. My wife always says she wishes there's something she could walk to and just sit down and get breakfast in the morning. And I think it would be popular. There's a lot of women that walk around all day. I think that that >> Okay. Which do you have at now? The >> green room here in Okay. Thank you so much.