above photo: Gayle Alstrom WHEN I last visited Port Richmond, Staten Island in 2018, I noticed what appeared to be several very old painted ads that I hadn’t noticed before.…
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SIFTING through some photos from 2016, which seems like yesterday now, I came across a series I got in Port Richmond and West Brighton in December 2016 that included a…
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UNTIL about ten years ago there was a very old, rusted, arrow-shaped sign pointing toward New Jersey on Richmond Terrace just east of Port Richmond Avenue, and if you look…
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OPENING the lid on a new year of Forgotten NY in Staten Island in 2026. During my last walk around St. George, Staten Island in January 2025, just over a…
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THERE was a time when Staten Island had separate towns, as Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens had before consolidation into Greater New York in 1898. The island was divided into four…
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I must get back to New Brighton soon to see what’s happening at the ancient Neville-Tysen house at #806 Richmond Terrace, just east of Sailors’ Snug Harbor. I am aware…
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AMONG the relatively humdrum street name in West Brighton, just east of Port Richmond, named for long-ago property owners, one name sticks out: Alaska Street, which runs from Richmond Terrace…
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In the New Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island, Jersey and York streets run parallel to each other, with a steep slope between them, part of the borough’s complex geology. Kevin…
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INSPIRATION for Forgotten New York items comes from all over. Attention was called on x (twitter) about a curious sign on a one-story brick building, #544 Vanderbilt Avenue at Ellington…
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FOR the first time in several years, I made my way south to Tottenville, New York State’s southernmost “town” (actually a neighborhood in NYC), on a very warm 80+-degree afternoon…
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THE only zoo in the city that is not operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society is on Staten Island, at 614 Broadway near Clove Lakes Park in West Brighton, in…
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A few wooden pilings and some crumbling concrete are all that remains of the Perth Amboy ferry landing at Bentley Street in Tottenville, Staten Island, the end of the line…