Tag Archives: Richmondtown

• RICHMONDTOWN to BULLS’ HEAD, Staten Island

  May 13, 2013

  Tags:Bulls Head, Heartland Village, New Springville, Richmondtown, Staten Island
  

  

  Actually this walk features rather less wilderness than when I first did it in 1999. After reading Bruce Kershner’s Secret Places of Staten Island, a primer for the remaining wild areas all over the island, I sallied forth on several of the adventures written about in the book. One of the more fascinating ones was [...]

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• OAKWOOD HEIGHTS TO RICHMONDTOWN, Part 2

  August 8, 2012

  Tags:Richmondtown, Staten Island
  

  CONTINUED FROM PART 1 After leaving the 1836 Latourette House, which now serves as the clubhouse for the Latourette Park Golf Course, I wanted to make my way down to Richmondtown and then, the S74 bus back to the ferry. I had to steady myself, since this was by far the most dangerous part of [...]

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• OAKWOOD HEIGHTS TO RICHMONDTOWN Part 1

  August 5, 2012

  Tags:Lighthouse Hill, Oakwood Heights, Richmondtown, Staten Island
  

  It had been quite awhile sine I had taken a long ramble in the Fifth Borough, apart from some wanderings from the ferry along Kill Van Kull to Snug Harbor, so I took a few hours in July 2012 to travel from Oakwood Heights through Lighthouse Hill and around again to Richmondtown, a location almost [...]

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• OLD MILL ROAD, Staten Island

  July 24, 2012

  Tags:Richmondtown, Staten Island
  

  When I first explored Old Mill Road, a colonial-era route from Richmondtown through Latourette Park, it was so overgrown I almost needed to use a machete to get through it. I was happy to see that Parks has gravel-paved it as a bike/hike route (they did it in 2009). At one time there was a [...]

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• RICHMONDTOWN JULY 4th

  July 7, 2008

  Tags:Richmondtown, Staten Island
  

  CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Turns out my educated guess was right…here’s a 1949 Hagstrom Staten Island showing Drumgoole Boulevard, with Ramona Blvd. in parentheses. I couldn’t come to any other conclusion; it couldn’t have been any other road.   The identity of this building set back from Center Street near Arthur Kill Road is no [...]

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• RICHMONDTOWN JULY 4th

  July 7, 2008

  Tags:Richmondtown, Staten Island
  

  In the summer I occasionally have to shake off torpidity — the combination of overcast skies and muggy weather make it hard for me to get started. Bearing in mind that this is pretty much what you get most of the summer in NYC — with the alternative being horrendous heatwaves — I have to [...]

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• LATOURETTE PARK

  August 6, 1999

  Tags:Richmondtown, Staten Island
  

  I’ve been visiting the amazing Historic Richmond Town in the heart of Staten Island for a few years now — and if you haven’t been there yet, I’d heartily recommend a visit to this enclave of 18th and 19th Century houses, businesses and establishments brought in from all over the Island. They’re all lovingly restored [...]

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