Why steal NYS' Urban Legend Crospey and make it just for staten Island?
Basically Cropsey is an area in Brooklyn, There is even a Crospey avenue in Brooklyn.
Why these film makers have taken an urban legend from New York State, plus mainly from Brooklyn, and decided to reduce it to just being Staten Island is beyond me.
If it was not done as NYS inclusive making it brooklyn would of made more sense as at least the Dutch had named an area of Brooklyn Cropsey. I also think Crospey can be used for woods in Dutch--a cropse of trees.
The Cropsey stories had always been told around campfires in NYS. Why it was reduced to being a Staten Island story is beyond me. Especially since if a place was mentioned it was Brooklyn, not Staten Island
Maybe the use of the name Cropsey was because of Heraldo Rivera's (Jerry Rivers back then) story back then about the use of the buildings at Willowbrook in Staten Island as a warehouse for the mentally ill and the shameful treatment they got at willowbrook at the poorly run and shameful treatment of the inmates at the mental institute helped bring him to notice and fame. However once he got fame he never went back to check on the inmates.
Crospey who had a hook for a hand from unethical experiments terrorized upstate NY and was not a Staten Island Urban Legend.
Why the film makers used Staten Island for the setting except it could be had cheap is beyond me especially when Brooklyn actually has a street named Crospey Avenue and a section of brooklyn known as Cropsey besdies it was an entire NYS urban legend pr real story about the escaped inmate from creedmoore they never talk about we will never know.
The one thing I do know is that Crospey was not from Staten Island.
Cropsey was more of a NYS or Brooklyn urban legend, Okay.
No Cropsey don't! I meant no disrespect. Please don't for god sake no mo ahhhhh!