SOMETIMES historic buildings are hiding in plain sight. Take this unassuming two-story house on Woodrow Road and Rossville Avenue, in an area that has gone from rural to suburban to…
Sandy Ground
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WOODROW and Bloomingdale Roads in Rossville, Staten Island was once the center of a small settlement named Sandy Ground. Before the Civil War, the community was founded by New York…
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STATEN ISLAND MOONSHINERS: CHARLESTON’S “STILL HOUSE”
by Kevin WalshGuest post PAUL SHARROTTStaten Island Historian I just came across an article in the New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell, published in1956 about him exploring along the southern part of Staten…
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The Steinway Family, the master piano builders, transit magnates, and resort developers, and the Kreischers, the brick makers who left their mark on far-flung New York City neighborhoods, put a…