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    DONGAN HILLS TO CLIFTON

    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2020 5 comments

    Continued from New Dorp Staring out in New Dorp, I did a somewhat ambitious walk through northeast Staten Island, winding through Dongan Hills, Concord and Grasmere, winding up at the…

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    ST. GEORGE to TOMPKINSVILLE to PARK HILL to STAPLETON, Part 3

    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2015 14 comments

    Continued from Part 2 In my collection of NYC books I think I can count the number of books on (exclusively) Staten Island with two hands. There’s Holden’s Staten Island, Secret…

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    ST. GEORGE to TOMPKINSVILLE to PARK HILL to STAPLETON, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2015 3 comments

    Continued from Part 1 In my collection of NYC books I think I can count the number of books on (exclusively) Staten Island with two hands. There’s Holden’s Staten Island, Secret…

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    ST. GEORGE to TOMPKINSVILLE to PARK HILL to STAPLETON

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2015 10 comments

    I think this one is going to take a number of pages to finish. In December 2014, before the winter got really harsh, I decided to walk around certain parts…

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    STATEN QUO: visiting Arrochar, Grasmere, Concord, Clifton and Rosebank: Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2013 17 comments

    Pictured in the title card is Grymes Hill, part of a string of hills that are New York City’s highest and, believe it or not, among the highest peaks along…

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    ADAPTABILITY

    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2013 7 comments

    The Donald Deskey lampposts, first introduced in 1958, are gradually being phased out as the city no longer has the parts for them. With their double-slotted shafts they were eminently…

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    MEET THE BARON

    by Kevin Walsh September 20, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh September 20, 2011 0 comment

    Baron Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben (1730-1794) was a Prussian Revolutionary War-era military leader. He is considered one of the fathers of the Continetal army in teaching the fire points…

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    PARK HILL, Staten Island

    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh August 16, 2007 0 comment

    Not only does Staten Island never make the NYC guidebooks, there might be parts of Staten Island that even Staten Islanders don’t know about. One of these neighborhoods is Park…

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