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SADLY I have never visited Big Nose Kate’s, a saloon way out in Rossville, at 2484 Arthur Kill Road, tucked near the huge Old Bermuda catering hall next to the…

SOMETIMES historic buildings are hiding in plain sight. Take this unassuming two-story house on Woodrow Road and Rossville Avenue, in an area that has gone from rural to suburban to…

Zebra Place is a very short road in Rossville, running one block from Arthur Kill Road at the ancient Saint Lukes Cemetery one block east of Bloomingdale Road south to…

Though I haven’t been there for a couple of years, I have always been attracted to Rossville on Staten Island’s southwest, not least for its Ship Graveyard and several colonial-era…

I haven’t been to Staten Island in quite awhile, and when the Covid Crisis is over I might even do what I did in early 2005 when compiling photos for…

Visiting Staten Island, of course, is a provocative act. I’ll paraphrase the opening line to my introduction to the ForgottenBook and say that if you’re a New Yorker not from…

I have been a frequent visitor to what I call The Dead Pool, a bend in the Arthur Kill, the waterway separating the west and south of Staten Island from New…

In my NYC travels, I am occasionally drawn to untrammeled, ruined places that are awaiting renovation or demolition; only when witnessing such desolation, it seems, can I truly appreciate the…

One of the eeriest places in the five boroughs, the entire Northeast, or perhaps the entire country, is in the borderland where New York City peters out, leaving New Jersey…

On his recent visit to Pleasant Plains on Staten Island, Kevin went into great detail on the neighborhood’s hidden history. On its northern edge, there’s a property worthy of its…

In May 2026, before the humidity set in for good, I took LIRR, subway, boat and Staten Island Railway to Pleasant Plains, a neighborhood in Staten Island I had probably…

Continued from Part One DURING the Forgotten New York era, I’ve only discussed Travis, Staten Island, in depth twice, in 2006 and 2015. Thus, I decided a repeat visit was more than warranted…