SON Rise Charismatic Interfaith Church can be found on Staten Island’s main north-south cross-island local street, Richmond Avenue, which roars from Port Richmond all the way to Raritan Bay, opposite…
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THE southeastern northeastern tip of Staten Island, its closest approach to Long Island, has been protected by fortifications since 1663, when a Dutch blockhouse was established. The area was known…
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In a borough quickly eradicating much of its historic legacy, no Staten Island neighborhood is preserving as much of its past as Port Richmond…if only from pure inertia, as it…
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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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HAMILTON Park, one of Staten Island’s most impressively concentrated areas of beautiful architecture, was begun by developer Charles Kennedy Hamilton in 1853. According to Staten Island resource, Holden’s Staten Island: …Hamilton…
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EVERY so often, I like to note place names that are unique to New York City and it’s likely I won’t find another Watchogue Road with a search on Google…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In my childhood and into adulthood I’ve had a fascination with maps, to the extent that my mother wished that I’d been born 500 years…
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JUST as the First Reformed Dutch Church at Flatbush and Church Avenues contains some of the best-preserved tombstones from the colonial era pre-Revolution, so does the Dutch Reformed Church in…
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FRONT Street in Clifton, Staten Island runs along Upper New York Bay and past the now nearly abandoned Bayley-Seton Hospital. Here we see it with the Staten Island Railway in…
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No, this isn’t a recent picture. I got it in 1999 or 2000 at Richmond Valley Road at Madsen Avenue in the south end of Staten Island, years before the…
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ALTHOUGH officially, New York City is the southernmost town in New York State, Tottenville, on the southern end of Staten Island, was actually the southernmost village when it was a…
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TRAVIS is about as far west as you can get in Staten Island, at the west end of Victory Boulevard. Just as Proctor and Gamble made Mariners Harbor a company…