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  • One Shots

    ROYAL LOG CABIN, Egbertville

    by Kevin Walsh October 7, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 7, 2018 4 comments

    Now and then I run across a historic item in NYC I had no idea even existed. With permission, I’m reprinting an item that appeared on the Pat Salmon Historic…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    R.I.P. VINTAGE RICHMONDTOWN STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2017 1 comment

    As of August 2017, two separate sources have confirmed it: This vintage pair of street signs on Richmond Road and Court Place have vanished, likely into the scrap heap of…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    STREET SIGNS, Richmondtown

    by Kevin Walsh September 24, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh September 24, 2015 0 comment

    On my bus trips in Staten Island as a  kid in the early 1960s, I paid close attention to signage, lampposts, lamp fixtures, stoplights, and other things that 5-to-8-year-old boys…

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  • One Shots

    STATEN ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE, Richmondtown

    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2014 0 comment

      From the FNY archives comes this pair of early 20th-Century views of the Staten Island Lighthouse, which is still operated by the Coast Guard as an aid to navigation…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    RICHMONDTOWN to BULLS’ HEAD, Staten Island

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2013 14 comments

    Actually this walk features rather less wilderness than when I first did it in 1999. After reading Bruce Kershner’s Secret Places of Staten Island, a primer for the remaining wild…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    OAKWOOD HEIGHTS TO RICHMONDTOWN, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2012 8 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 After leaving the 1836 Latourette House, which now serves as the clubhouse for the Latourette Park Golf Course, I wanted to make my way down to…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    OAKWOOD HEIGHTS TO RICHMONDTOWN Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2012 10 comments

    It had been quite awhile sine I had taken a long ramble in the Fifth Borough, apart from some wanderings from the ferry along Kill Van Kull to Snug Harbor,…

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  • One Shots

    OLD MILL ROAD, Staten Island

    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2012 0 comment

    When I first explored Old Mill Road, a colonial-era route from Richmondtown through Latourette Park, it was so overgrown I almost needed to use a machete to get through it.…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    RICHMONDTOWN JULY 4th

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2008 3 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Turns out my educated guess was right…here’s a 1949 Hagstrom Staten Island showing Drumgoole Boulevard, with Ramona Blvd. in parentheses. I couldn’t come to any other…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    RICHMONDTOWN JULY 4th

    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh July 7, 2008 0 comment

    In the summer I occasionally have to shake off torpidity — the combination of overcast skies and muggy weather make it hard for me to get started. Bearing in mind…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    LATOURETTE PARK

    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 1999 5 comments

    I’ve been visiting the amazing Historic Richmond Town in the heart of Staten Island for a few years now — and if you haven’t been there yet, I’d heartily recommend…

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