On the day after the 4th of July 2024 I made my only visit to Staten Island all year and puttered around the Stapleton area, specifically Van Duzer Street and…
Stapleton
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QUITE a few years have passed since I strode Van Duzer Street and St. Paul’s Avenue in Stapleton. Of late I have been revisiting locales where I have not been…
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To begin, I’ll quote myself from the ForgottenBook… Stapleton and Clifton are two adjacent neighborhoods on Staten Island’s northeast coast along Upper New York Bay. The Vanderbilt family held much…
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TIME for another sojourn in Staten Island, this time along the waterfront areas of St. George, Tompkinsville, Stapleton, Clifton and Rosebank along Upper New York Bay where it becomes The…
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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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The Paramount Theatre, at 560 Bay Street near Prospect, is now likely Staten Island’s premier ‘ghost theater’ now that the St. George has been reactivated. It was designed by architects…
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Continued from Part 2 In my collection of NYC books I think I can count the number of books on (exclusively) Staten Island with two hands. There’s Holden’s Staten Island, Secret…
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Continued from Part 1 In my collection of NYC books I think I can count the number of books on (exclusively) Staten Island with two hands. There’s Holden’s Staten Island, Secret…
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I think this one is going to take a number of pages to finish. In December 2014, before the winter got really harsh, I decided to walk around certain parts…
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Well, as the great Bob Grant used to say, that slams the lid on things for 2014. Closing out the year with a green clapboard house at Clinton and Brewster…
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If you missed FNY’s Stapleton tour in June 2014, you missed some very interesting architectural highlights! In 1833, Minthorne Tompkins, son of the late Vice President under James Monroe, Daniel…
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The National Biscuit Company was formed in 1898 by a merger of the midwest American Bakeries and the eastern New York Biscuit Company, while these companies, in turn, had been…