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    FORT WADSWORTH TO STAPLETON: PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2020 4 comments

    Continued from Part 1: Fort Wadsworth and Clifton In 2019, I made three separate pilgrimages and Walks of Penance in Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank and Clifton areas on the east shore…

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    FORT WADSWORTH & ROSEBANK

    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 10, 2020 7 comments

    In 2019, I made three separate pilgrimages and Walks of Penance in Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank and Clifton areas on the east shore of Staten Island. The first was on January…

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  • One Shots

    WIMAN PLACE, Rosebank

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2019 7 comments

    No, Wiman Place doesn’t look like much to write home to Mother about. It’s a two-bock, rubble-strewn alley tucked behind the historic St. Mary’s Church on Bay Street in Rosebank.…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY, 1999, Rosebank

    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2017 3 comments

    I was wandering on Fingerboard Road near Tompkins Avenue in 1999, looking for traces of the old Staten Island Railway (Staten Island Rapid Transit) right of way, when I saw…

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  • One Shots

    GARIBALDI-MEUCCI MUSEUM, Rosebank

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2017 0 comment

    Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) crusaded for a united Italy in the early to middle years of the 19th Century. In 1834 he joined Giuseppe Mazzini in the Young Italy Society; after…

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  • Walks

    STATEN QUO: visiting Arrochar, Grasmere, Concord, Clifton and Rosebank: Finale

    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2013 15 comments

    Well, I see I’d better kick this series in the head, since my daily ratings are way down since I began it three weeks ago. ‘S’matter, you don’t like Staten…

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  • Walks

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

    by Kevin Walsh September 1, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 1, 2013 24 comments

    Taking advantage of a recent break from the draining and oppressive humidity of the New York summer, in late August I made a circuitous walk in Staten Island, taking the…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    TRACKS FOREVER GONE, Rosebank

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2013 5 comments

    It’s 1936 and the Staten Island Rapid Transit, which was then still run by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has just been elevated over sleepy St. John’s Avenue in this…

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  • Neighborhoods

    ROSEBANK — back to a Staten Island small town

    by Kevin Walsh September 11, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh September 11, 2011 43 comments

    I have done two previous surveys of Rosebank, a small town on the southeast edge of Staten Island bordered by the SIRT cut, the Verrazano Bridge approach, and the Staten…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    STATEN ISLAND SHRINE

    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2008 1 comment

    Hidden deep in Staten Island’s Rosebank neighborhood is the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto, a 30-foot high shrine made of concrete spangled with smooth round stones, glass marbles, shells, plastic flowers.…

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  • Neighborhoods

    ROSEBANK, Staten Island

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2008
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2008 0 comment

    I was in Rosebank, Staten Island in October 2008 to photograph the mighty Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (which I did, but it deserves its own Forgotten New…

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  • Street Scenes

    ALICE AUSTEN of Staten Island

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2006 0 comment

    In February 2005 I spent seven days in Staten Island. While many Manhattanites would consider that tantamount to a sentence to life without BlackBerries or having the Republicans in Madison Square…

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