Your webmaster admits to not traveling that often. I don’t have the money, and I don’t know the languages. I’ve never left the Northern Hemisphere, and am unlikely to in the near future. (I did make it to Pittsburgh in March ’07, and plan trips in the USA during the year, but my uncomfortability factor [...]
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Tag Archives: Mariners Harbor
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MARINERS HARBOR/OLD PLACE, Staten Island
May 20, 2007Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Mariners Harbor Staten Island
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RICHMOND TERRACE, STATEN ISLAND Part 2
December 10, 2006
Continued from PART 1 Richmond Terrace continues rather desultorily toward its final destination, the strait separating Staten Island and New Jersey called the Arthur Kill. On the way, however, we roll through Port Richmond, which, some say, is undergoing a renaissance; past the towering Bayonne Bridge; junkyards, ship repair yards, ancient 150-year-old houses, and more [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Elm Park Mariners Harbor Port Ivory Port Richmond
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STATEN ISLAND’S ANCIENT HOUSES
November 24, 2004STATEN ISLAND is disappearing fast. Every year more and more of Staten Island’s legacy of eclectic architecture disappears as row upon row of little boxes that all look just the same encroach upon and destroy classic stylings from the 18th and 19th Centuries. In Staten Island, old homes are thought of as impediments to the conformity [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Eltingville Grymes Hill Mariners Harbor New Brighton Pleasant Plains Prince's Bay Stapleton
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MARINERS MARSH PARK
December 23, 2003Directly across Richmond Terrace from Mariners’ Harbor, in the far northwest shore of Staten Island up a lengthy gravel path, are the remains of docks (occasionally) covered in rime, from which new ships were launched into Kill Van Kull. The tall building in the center left is Goldman Sachs’ Jersey City headquarters; at 820 feet [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Arlington Mariners Harbor Parks Staten Island
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STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY
July 20, 1999Still thriving between St. George and Tottenville, the Staten Island Railway, a subway in everything but name that extends from St. George Ferry to Tottenville, was once much more extensive. On this page we’ll show you traces of the SIRT as it once was. A short history: Non-residents of Staten Island may not know that [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Arlington Arrochar Mariners Harbor Port Richmond South Beach Staten Island West Brighton