THE time between the leaves fall in November and when they come back again in April can be the best time for street photography but can also be the worst.…
Port Richmond
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JENNY Faber, a member of the Faber pencil manufacturing family, lived in Port Richmond and in 1869 was granted a patent to the land along the Kill Van Kull in Port…
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above photo: Gayle Alstrom WHEN I last visited Port Richmond, Staten Island in 2018, I noticed what appeared to be several very old painted ads that I hadn’t noticed before.…
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UNTIL about ten years ago there was a very old, rusted, arrow-shaped sign pointing toward New Jersey on Richmond Terrace just east of Port Richmond Avenue, and if you look…
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In a borough quickly eradicating much of its historic legacy, no Staten Island neighborhood is preserving as much of its past as Port Richmond…if only from pure inertia, as it…
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JUST as the First Reformed Dutch Church at Flatbush and Church Avenues contains some of the best-preserved tombstones from the colonial era pre-Revolution, so does the Dutch Reformed Church in…
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AFTER reaching Richmond Avenue by walking Forest Avenue west from Silver Lake Park in November 2021 my day was not yet done. My plan was to then head for Richmond…
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In November 2021 it occurred to me that I had never walked the full length of Forest Avenue in Staten Island. I embarked on it, but did about half, getting…
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There’s a very old, rusted, arrow-shaped sign pointing toward New Jersey on Richmond Terrace just east of Port Richmond Avenue, and if you look carefully you can just make out…
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At Post Avenue and Driprock Street in Port Richmond you will find this formerly grand brick structure, with Corinthian columns and arched windows, most of which have had plywood affixed…
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Continued from Part 1 I found myself once again in Port Richmond midweek in December 2016, the subject of a number of FNY forays over the years. The story has…
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I found myself once again in Port Richmond midweek in December 2016, the subject of a number of FNY forays over the years. The story has been told here many…