"tottenville"

ALTHOUGH officially, New York City is the southernmost town in New York State, Tottenville, on the southern end of Staten Island, was actually the southernmost village when it was a…

March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

I didn’t think I’d be doing another Tottenville page, to be frank with you. I’d thought I had said all that needed to be said, the town’s history and my…

New York City’s newest transit station opened January 17th, 2017, just sixteen days after much more ballyhooed three new stations and another overhauled station fully opened as part of the…

I will be posting on NYC’s newest mass transit station (by 16 days!) soon, and will also have something about Tottenville soon too, but for now, here’s the remnants of…

I haven’t had the chance to nip down to Tottenville to see the newest station on the Staten Island Railway, Arthur Kill, which was built between the former Atlantic and…

The cornerstone for the Masonic Temple for Huguenot Lodge #381 on Main Street south of Amboy Road was laid with great fanfare on June 12, 1909. There was a gathering…

Captain Henry Hogg Biddle’s grand mansion at 70 Satterlee Street was built on the water’s edge between 1840-1845 in a Dutch Colonial style with unusual two-story porticoes. At the time,…

“The Rutan-Journeay House at 7647 Amboy Road, built ca. 1848, is a rare survivor of early Tottenville, an important 19th-century town on Staten Island’s South Shore. This vernacular clapboard cottage…