Thousands of miniature lights create an icy glow in the empty basin of the "Runner" statue in Kiener Plaza downtown on Dec. 23, 1983. (Jerry Naunheim Jr./Post-Dispatch) While the average high on ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Forty years ago, people weren’t talking about a white Christmas. For millions of people across the United States, including on Staten Island, it was an ice Christmas in 1983.