Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
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1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Molinari loved to talk about it because everyone was talking about it.
And David Goldfarb was worried.
He liked being part of New York City.
He and his wife lived on the North Shore, the most diverse part of the island, closest to Manhattan, in a house with a pool and, depending on the season, two pink lawn flamingos.
He worked in a law firm in Manhattan.
He did not want to secede from New York.
And from their conversations, it seemed like Molinari was maybe on his side.
He had not yet endorsed secession.
That may have been what Molinari was saying, but something was clearly brewing.
The movement was everywhere.
The local cable station had even made tapes for classrooms to teach kids about secession.
They were not exactly unbiased.
David Goldfarb did not want to be part of it.
What is your nightmare situation here?
the secessionists had to be stopped.
You're listening to Revisionist History.
I'm Ben Nadeff-Haffery, and this is the Staten Island Problem, our series about the Staten Island secession movement of the 1990s, and more broadly, about what we do when a democracy fractures.
Last episode was about the psychology of secession.
Who wants to leave and why?
This episode is about the people who don't want to leave and the fight that ensued between them in the battle for Staten Island.
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