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Father John C. Drumgoole (1828-1888) made the care of homeless and destitute children his life’s work, founding Mount Loretto on Staten Island’s south shore in 1882: Fr. Drumgoole was a great innovator in the field of childcare. The layout of the Mission was designed to provide plenty of light and air to each resident so [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Mount Loretto Prince's Bay Staten Island
CONTINUED FROM PART 4 Your webmaster made fitful forays into extreme southwestern Staten Island (the old town of Westfield) in the 1960s (I seem to remember a bus ride with my parents past endless fields of nothing (likely Arthur Kill Road, which still has a lot of empty stretches) and a two-lane roadway (that was probably [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Subways & Trains Tagged with: Prince's Bay Richmond Valley Staten Island
STATEN ISLANDÂ 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
