Staten Island Restaurant Tour, Part II: Fina’s Farmhouse (Arthur Kill)

Kill” is actually the Dutch word for “little stream,” so naming a neighborhood after one is less a horror-movie scenario than a nod to New York’s Dutch heritage — the city originally was Nieuw Amsterdam, after all. This episode of the Staten Island Restaurant Tour, my series of reports on comfort food in New York’s “forgotten borough,” brings us to the second-from-last stop on the Staten Island Railway as it trundles down from the ferry along the big island’s eastern flank. As usual, I take the subway from Upper Manhattan to the ferry. Before I board, one of Staten Island’s native sons blesses my journey. Pete Davidson had hosted Saturday Night Live just the night before. <a href="https://toycritic.medium.com/staten-island-restaurant-tour-part-ii-finas-farmhouse-arthur-kill-bec6ece487c2">Read More</a>