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I had always thought Maretzek Court, off Bloomingdale Road north of Amboy Road in Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, honored a developer or builder but actually the court honors a long-ago musician. The handy-dandy Morris’s Memorial History of Staten Island has a listing for Max Maretzek Senior (1821-1898) born in Brno in what is now the [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Pleasant Plains Staten Island
STATEN 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
