Inez Street is a dead end issuing from the north side of fast and furious Hylan Boulevard at Lemon Creek Park, west of Seguine Avenue. This is an area that…
Prince’s Bay
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 GOOGLE MAP: PRINCE’S BAY One of the places I visited in 2005, and have only been in once or twice since, is Prince’s Bay, on the…
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In February 2005 I was a Staten Islander for a week! I may have told this story before in one of my Staten Island pages, but I like telling it.…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When we think of the city’s oldest drawbridges, the retractable examples on Borden Avenue across Dutch Kills and Carroll Street across Gowanus Canal come to mind. But those…
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Here’s a shot from long ago in Prince’s Bay, Staten Island, where I was bumbling along with a camera in 1998 when I spotted a pair of Staten Island classic…
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Father John C. Drumgoole (1816-1888) made the care of homeless and destitute children his life’s work, founding Mount Loretto on Staten Island’s south shore in 1882: Fr. Drumgoole was a…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 4 Your webmaster made fitful forays into extreme southwestern Staten Island (the old town of Westfield) in the 1960s (I seem to remember a bus ride with my…
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STATEN ISLAND is disappearing fast. Every year more and more of Staten Island’s legacy of eclectic architecture disappears as row upon row of little boxes that all look just the same…