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CONTINUED FROM TODT HILL PART 1 This huge elm stands atop, or near, the ancient Burbanck family gravesite at Four Corners and Todt Hill Roads. Most large, older elms were killed by Dutch Elm Disease, so this one is a survivor. How old can it be? Perhaps a century old. And in this [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Four Corners Staten Island Sunnyside Todt Hill
Todt Hill, Staten Island’s 412-foot tall mountain, is in the center of the borough and is at once wild, wide-open and untrammeled and manages, at the same time, to be one of Staten Island’s most exclusive and expensive areas…for people on both sides of the law. Join your webmaster as he climbs and ascends the [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Four Corners Staten Island Sunnyside Todt Hill
