Rookies Rookies held this workshop at the Seamen's Society for Children and Families right in downtown St. George. The Seamen's Society provides HIV support and counseling, plus foster care, adoption and domestic violence services. Jaimita Haskell was the youngest person ever honored by the Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun Award. These stories were also awarded a New York Association of Black Journalists, an NFCB Golden Reel Award, an RTNDA/UNITY Award and won second place for a PRNDI Award.
About the neighborhood:
About 70,000 people ride the Staten Island Ferry each day and all of them end up in St. George at one end of the trip or the other. It's a free ride and only takes 25 minutes. Besides housing the ferry terminal, St. George is the borough's civic center and has all the courts, the Borough Hall and all the City and State buildings. It is also an arts center with the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, the St. George Theater and Staten Island's largest public library. The neighborhood is a mix of office buildings, stores, restaurants, apartment buildings, townhouses and even some older detached homes. From the waterfront of St. George you can see the Manhattan skyline, New Jersey and the Statue of Liberty.