Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
speaker
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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All right, let's get into the series.
One day, I came across a box of tapes in the College of Staten Island Archives.
They were these mostly unmarked VHS tapes jammed in no particular order into a cardboard box.
The extremely helpful archivist set me up with an old VCR.
I popped in a tape, and I met Dan Singletary.
This guy, Dan Singletary, he looked like a cowboy.
Big mustache, lanky.
I remembered seeing his name all over newspapers from the time, usually described vaguely as an artist who wanted Staten Island to secede, but no one ever said what exactly his art was.
This intrigued me.
And here he was, at a debate on secession, going off about the shoddy schools.
And as I watched those tapes, it became clear to me that Dan Singletary was really the voice of this movement.
There were many problems with keeping things the way they were.
At least the Staten Islanders saw it.
And nothing was talked about more than the dump.
Fresh kills.
It was so remarkable that Ripley's Believe It or Not featured it.
The scale of it could not be believed.
Dan Singletary would parade national reporters out to see the dump.
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