{"id":14113,"date":"2025-10-23T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14113\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:39:08","slug":"elm-park-centenarian-has-seen-it-all-down-memory-lane-with-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14113\/","title":{"rendered":"Elm Park centenarian has seen it all: Down memory lane with Kitty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/entertainment\/\" title=\"Navigate to Entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment<\/a>Updated: Oct. 23, 2025, 4:15 p.m.|Published: Oct. 23, 2025, 4:13 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Kitty\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NOZCVUO6WNBJLN4WBAGDVMJVXA.JPG\"\/>Kitty Perkowski, left, and her sister Stella, during the 1990s. (Courtesy\/Perkowski family)Staten Island Advance<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3BRZ5R3MR5DKBIOKL3SVI3U36I\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 If you ask 100-year-old Catherine Perkowski if anything\u2019s new, grab a chair. You may be sitting for a while. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2XSJ2ZY2LJDZTI5ZCUWVFZR2CQ\">\u201cNothing gets past me, I\u2019ve seen it all,\u201d says the Elm Park resident, who just happens to be Staten Island\u2019s latest centenarian.<\/p>\n<p>IT &#8211; Inside Out columnist and features and news writer and Arts and Entertainment reporter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EntertainmentUpdated: Oct. 23, 2025, 4:15 p.m.|Published: Oct. 23, 2025, 4:13 p.m.Kitty Perkowski, left, and her sister Stella, during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-14113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}