Staten Island played secret role in breakthrough album of AC/DC’s career

And Staten Island played a key role in the album’s iconic artwork. AC/DC were a hard-rocking quintet from Australia whose ...
Staten Island Advance

Back to the future: 24-year-old Staten Islander is stuck in the 80s—and makes a career out of it

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The bangs are big, the Camaro is teal and the wardrobe looks plucked straight from the racks of a long-gone Chess King. But Violet Sky — yes, that’s her real name — isn’t stuck ...

‘Working Girl’ Review: La Jolla Playhouse Invests in ’80s Nostalgia, Launching Mike Nichols Adaptation With Retro-Sounding Cyndi Lauper Songs

In “Working Girl,” an upwardly mobile Melanie Griffith embodied Tess McGill, a secretary from Staten Island with big hair and ...
The Village Voice

Early 1980s Four-Floor Townhouse

Come clean. Why are you living in south Staten Island if you work in New Jersey, which, on bad days, is a two-hour commute? Then at nights you drive to Manhattan to the Fourth Wall Workshop to play ...
New York Post

Trapped in the ‘80s: This 24-year-old has big hair, vintage clothes, a Camaro — and makes her living from a decade she never lived in

Her gig is totally rad. A Staten Islander is making a living from her infatuation with the 1980s — despite never having lived in the decade herself. Content creator Violet Sky, who sports a teased-up ...
insider.si.edu

A study of a community : Staten Island architecture and environment : [exhibition, Staten Island Museum] Oct. 12-Nov. 9, 1980

Photographs by George Szekely ; watercolors and drawings by Dianna Gabay. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...
City & State New York

Editor’s Note: I confess I too forgot Staten Island

As a teen growing up in Manhattan in the 1980s, I drove my dad’s car onto the Staten Island Ferry (which was allowed then) for a day trip to the Staten Island Mall. After that, Staten Island became my ...