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    GRANITEVILLE DAYS

    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2022 7 comments

    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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    FOREST AVENUE, West Brighton

    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2022 14 comments

    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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    BAYONNE FERRY SIGN, Port Richmond

    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2021 4 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    SVEA HALL, Port Richmond

    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2018 3 comments

    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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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    PORT RICHMOND-CASTLETON AVENUE, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh June 4, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh June 4, 2017 9 comments

    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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    PORT RICHMOND-CASTLETON AVENUE, Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2017 9 comments

    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…

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  • One Shots

    CARNEGIE LIBRARY, Port Richmond

    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2017 0 comment

    Here’s a taster from a series of photos I shot in Port Richmond and New Brighton, Staten Island, in December 2016. I had to cut my walk short after 3…

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  • One Shots

    GRIFFITH BLOCK, Port Richmond

    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2016 0 comment

    Port Richmond has its beginnings in the 1690s and early 1700s when Dutch and French colonists settled here. After the landowning Haughwout family laid out the town’s tight street grid…

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  • One Shots

    CAPT. PHILIP T. FEENEY, Port Richmond

    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh September 14, 2016 2 comments

    The forlorn remains of the tug Philip T. Feeney can be found at the source of Port Richmond Avenue just north of Richmond Terrace at the Kill Van Kull. This isn’t an…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    PORT RICHMOND 2014

    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2014 28 comments

    I return to Port Richmond frequently — it’s New York City’s version of one of those innumerable small towns around the country whose downtowns have been Wal-Marted to death, as…

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    RITZ THEATER, Port Richmond

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2014 44 comments

    One of the unwritten pop music stories in New York City is the role played by everyday, humdrum neighborhood theaters and venues as rock and roll hotbeds. Some of the…

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    BAYONNE BRIDGE, Staten Island to New Jersey

    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2012 37 comments

    Four auto traffic bridges connect Staten Island to the outside world. In order of construction, they are the Outerbridge Crossing (named for its engineer, not because it is in the…

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