As I have mentioned on a (much) earlier Forgotten New York page back in 2001, Staten Island is rife with natural areas and ponds that never made the traditional maps,…
Great Kills
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NYC has its share of regional bakeries…Brooklynites swore by Ebinger’s up till about 1970 or so, and NYC still has its Entenmann’s; most of NYC’s urban neighborhoods have popular bakeries.…
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January 2020 seems like a million years ago, coming as it did before the Great Infection. It was a mild month, compared to how some Januaries are in NYC, with…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Look at a map of Staten Island and you would see a point of land on the Great Kills waterfront stretching on its southern…
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Continued from Part 2 As Beatle Paul would often say, we’d like to carry on now with five more stations of Staten Island Rapid Transit, or Staten Island railway, as it’s…
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Down the southeast coast of Staten Island, retreating glaciers not a few millennia ago left a number of small, unobtusive ponds that serve as way stations for migrating shorebirds, as…