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“Packard was an American luxury-type automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last in 1958.” Richmond Terrace, West Brighton
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Staten Island West Brighton
Categorized in: Walks Tagged with: Port Richmond West Brighton
I did a thorough survey of Staten Island’s Tompkinsville and Stapleton, especially Van Duzer Street, in December 2010 (to match my earlier page on the gorgeous homes of St. Paul’s Avenue). I wasn’t finished that day, though, and after getting through Tompkinsville and Stapleton, I pressed further, into Grymes Hill, West Brighton, Randall Manor, Clove [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Grymes Hill Staten Island Sunnyside West Brighton
Staten Island’s surviving Broadway is one of the main north-south streets of West New Brighton, running from Clove Road at St. Peter’s Cemetery generally north to Richmond Terrace. I say “surviving” because Staten Island has had a number of Broadways over the years, as this list by historian Steve Morse attests: there have also been [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Street Scenes Walks Tagged with: Staten Island West Brighton
Your webmaster would have to say that October, and even November, are my favorite times of year for picture taking. For one thing, those months contain my favorite weather, with a lot of days clear and cool, jacket weather in the 50s and 60s, until mid-November that is, when the weather in NYC becomes drizzle and [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Livingston Staten Island West Brighton
EDGED as it is between the Russian delis and nightclubs of Brighton Beach, the colonial houses and cemeteries of Gravesend, and the sideshow freaks, kiddie rides and mermaids of Coney Island, West Brighton doesn’t get a whole lot of attention. Yet the small area dominated by the Warbasse and Trump Houses has its own collection of relics (besides your webmaster, who [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Tagged with: Brooklyn West Brighton
Heavy snow in NYC winters is unpredictable. A series of winters with little snow can be followed by years of blizzardy winters. But a fearsome, freak blizzard in early March 1888 caught New York City completely unprepared, and caused property damage, injuries and death. It also changed how telephone and telegraph wires were connected to Manhattan homes [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn East New York Jamaica Avenue Morris Park Queens Radial Wave Ridgewood Riverdale Sheepshead Bay Staten Island Van Cortlandt Park West Brighton
Still 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
