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…
Stapleton
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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…
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On Saturday, July 12th, 2014, 15 ForgottenFans took advantage of yet more pleasant weather (sunny, 85 degrees), taking the ferry and Staten Island Railway to Stapleton, Staten Island, where we…
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A few years ago, when ForgottenTour 16 was swinging through Tompkinsville, Staten Island, we saw this ancient barn-like structure on Swan Street, labeled “Encumbrance Depot” and wondered what it was.…
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I recently walked from the St. George Ferry in Staten Island through Tompkinsville, Stapleton, and West Brighton, finishing at Clove Lakes Park, and had intended originally to do a Forgotten…
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In Time Magazine this week (4/26/09) President Obama’s staffers say they think of the White House as a “living museum.” Sometimes things should be frozen right where they are, never…
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Not only does Staten Island never make the NYC guidebooks, there might be parts of Staten Island that even Staten Islanders don’t know about. One of these neighborhoods is Park…
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Got to admit that I’m a little bit confused… I set out to do a study of the stations of the Staten Island Railway, which I prefer to call its old…
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LET ME BE absolutely clear about something: like Johnny Cougar Mellencamp, I feel most comfortable in a small town setting. That’s quite unusual coming from somebody who was born in and who has…