At Liedy’s Shore Inn, Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, June 30, 2012
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LIEDY’S SHORE INN
May 30, 2012One of my new favorite spots while hiking the twisting and turning length of Richmond Terrace on Staten Island’s north shore — home to a brand new pedestrian walk facing Upper New York Bay and a long-abandoned railroad, as well as the remains of gypsum plants and plumbing supply firms — is the hole-in-the-wall Leidy’s [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: New Brighton Staten Island
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NEW BRIGHTON, Staten Island
January 17, 2010I know Brighton, England, only from the 1979 movie Quadrophenia, where it was depicted as the seaside resort town in southern England in which Phil Daniels as Jimmy is horrified to discover that his Mod idol, the Ace Face, played by Sting, works as a bellboy. It’s also the place where the Mods and Rockers [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: New Brighton Staten Island
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S. R. SMITH INFIRMARY, Staten Island
December 3, 2009It’s one of the longest-tenured abandoned buildings in a borough full of them — see parts of Seaview Hospital, the Staten Island Farm Colony, and the St. Augustine Retreat House (into which neither your webmaster or any of my scouts have ventured into yet, at least to obtain decent photos). The castellated, turreted S.R. Smith Infirmary, later the [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: New Brighton Staten Island
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RICHMOND TERRACE Part 1
December 3, 2006Richmond Terrace is the longest street named “Terrace” in New York City, and for all I know, anywhere. In New York City, streets named “Terrace” are usually a block long, or even dead ends. Staten island, though, has two lengthy Terraces…this one, and Ocean Terrace in Todt Hill, which runs from the Staten Island Expressway [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Livingston New Brighton Port Richmond St. George
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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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Forgotten Tour 16, New Brighton, Staten Island
May 24, 2004S.R. Smith Infirmary, New Brighton, Staten Island HEY, you missed a good one. Twenty Forgotten fans…a lower total than most recent tours…visited Tompkinsville and New Brighton, two of Staten Island’s more venerable small towns, seeing its collection of Victorian-era “gingerbread” mansions, unusual architecture, abandoned relics, and ending at Snug Harbor, originated by Robert R. Randall in the [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: New Brighton Stapleton Staten Island
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S.R. Smith Infirmary
May 24, 2004On ForgottenTour 16, Forgotten Fan Monica D. entered the abandoned S.R. Smith Infirmary in New Brighton, Staten Island and snagged some scenes of the gutted interior, risking her health in the process. I’m just glad she survived because I’ve been in some of these abandoned hulks, and not only do you face cave-ins, you also have [...]
Categorized in: Tours Tagged with: New Brighton Staten Island
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LITTLE BROTHERS: NYC’s familiar streets..or are they?
November 28, 2001We’re going to Broadway today. We’re also going to Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Wall Street, Canal Street and several other well-known New York City locales. But since this website is called Forgotten NY, things aren’t always as obvious as they can appear. Get your Brooks Brothers suit on and bring your portfolio… Wall Street is [...]
Categorized in: Roads Street Scenes Tagged with: Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn Fort Greene New Brighton Port Richmond St. George Stapleton Staten Island
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PONDS OF STATEN ISLAND
October 16, 2001Down the southeast coast of Staten Island, retreating glaciers not a few millennia ago left a number of small, unobtusive ponds that serve as way stations for migrating shorebirds, as well as havens for perennial birds, reptiles, fish and other wildlife. While they are recognized by the Parks Department, they don’t turn up on maps, [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Eltingville Grasmere Great Kills New Brighton Staten Island
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BANK STREET BRIDGE
December 21, 1999Safety considerations have forced the demolition of a Staten Island bridge that had pretty much remained unchanged for the last forty years. It had its original railings, 1960-vintage mercury lamps, and of course, its original Belgian block roadbed. Of course, here at Forgotten NY, it lives on… The Bank Street Bridge spanned the now-unused northern [...]
Categorized in: Cobblestones Tagged with: New Brighton Staten Island
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WEDGE WAY IS UP. NYC’s 1960s non glass bowl lamps
November 9, 1999Wedges, scoopers, turtlebeaks and nozzles! When the talk turns to street lighting, as it often does with me and Forgotten Fans (remember those cone-shaped things that turned up on bishops crooks in the mid-40s? Remember when they changed the orange fire alarm lights from globular to cylindrical? Why did they tear down those weird vertical [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Brooklyn Corona Dyker Heights General Electric Jamaica New Brighton Queens Staten Island Westinghouse