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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Pretend I'm a skeptic.
Make the pitch.
Just not.
Was anyone opposed to it because they're like New York City, greatest city in the world, and we're part of it?
One of the five boroughs.
This series is about the politics of resentment and alienation and how we handle them.
And this was, for me, an interesting moment in the case study.
There's a big difference between feeling you're treated poorly and feeling that you've lost something.
The former might lead to a quest for justice.
The latter leads to resentment.
Secession wasn't just Dan Singletary's arguments about voting structures and the quality of life.
It was, for a lot of Staten Islanders, the feeling that something had been taken away from them.
Scamardella was that kind of secessionist.
Something powerful was taking shape on Staten Island.
It was going to lead somewhere big.
And so a group of people got together on the island to try and stop it.
That's next week.
The Staten Island Problem is written and reported by me, Ben Natafafri.
It was produced by Lucy Sullivan with Nina Byrd-Lawrence.
Our editor is Karen Shikurji.
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