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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This is episode three, The Tuvalu Effect.
As the secessionists marauded around the island and the cable news station went to work brainwashing the children, the people on Staten Island who actually liked being part of New York City realized they had to get organized.
So Goldfarb joined a group of like-minded individuals, Staten Islanders for Unified New York, SIFUNI.
The message of which was, what are you doing?
This is going to ruin Staten Island.
One spring evening in 1993, Saifuni and the pro-secessionists gathered at the College of Staten Island for a debate.
The space looks like a lecture hall.
Four men in suits at a table with mics, heroes and cokes on a table in the back.
A handful of students and concerned citizens sit in the audience.
And Goldfarb was front and center.
Saifuni went toe-to-toe with the secessionists all around the island again and again.
The big secessionist organization was called Vote Yes, Inc.
Dan Singletary, the artist-slash-cowboy from last episode, represented them.
Singletary was promoting a glorious vision of what the island could be.
Goldfarb was bringing them back down to earth.
If Staten Island became an independent city, they were going to have to take care of a whole lot of things for themselves, like a police department or a public school system.
They'd finally have to build a jail.
David Goldfarb had a lot to say about that.
Goldfarb, it's worth noting, has argued in front of the Supreme Court.
Singletary fired back.
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