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    KILLMEYER’S, CHARLESTON

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2024 3 comments

    HARD to believe but it’s been since October 2017 since I was in Killmeyer’s, on Staten Island’s south shore, when I wrapped up a Forgotten NY tour there. This vintage…

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    STATEN ISLAND MOONSHINERS: CHARLESTON’S “STILL HOUSE”

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2024 25 comments

    Guest post PAUL SHARROTTStaten Island Historian I just came across an article in the New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell, published in1956 about him exploring along the southern part of Staten…

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    PS 4, Charleston

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2022 5 comments

    In 1854, at about the same time that Henry Steinway Sr. was starting his piano empire, Balthazar Kreischer was building a brick factory in Charleston, Staten Island (Richmond County was…

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    WINANT LANE, Charleston

    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2017 3 comments

    I discovered a very old lane in Charleston, or Kreischerville, Staten Island on 10/1/17 in an unusual circumstance: A Forgotten New York tour I was leading. The group was making…

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    SOUTHERN STATEN ISLAND: Richmond Valley, Charleston, Kreischerville, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2017 7 comments

    Continued from Part 1 About once or twice a year, I’m in south-southwest Staten Island, the southernmost point in New York State. Though “suburbanity” long ago made its way into…

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    SOUTHERN STATEN ISLAND: Richmond Valley, Charleston, Kreischerville, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2017 1 comment

    About once or twice a year, I’m in south-southwest Staten Island, the southernmost point in New York State. Though “suburbanity” long ago made its way into places like Tottenville, Richmond Valley, and Charleston there are still pockets of wilderness and still touches of small town life left over. Soon enough, these small patches will be filled in.

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