I’m not sure I have ever photographed the New Dorp Lighthouse in Staten Island; things get fuzzy after 23 years and counting of doing Forgotten New York. The lighthouse is…
Staten Island
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I fancy myself something of a connoisseur of carousels. Whenever I know one is around wherever I happen to be, I seek it out. I admire the calliope music (fie…
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MENTION “Willowbrook” to anyone over 50, and the groundbreaking reports aired by reporter Geraldo Rivera in 1972 during his stint at WABC-TV, uncovering the brutal conditions inflicted on patients at…
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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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LATELY I have been revisiting my Names of the Neighborhoods series over at SpliceToday but I hadn’t tackled Staten Island and Manhattan yet. Staten Island has a number of curious…
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AFTER reaching Richmond Avenue by walking Forest Avenue west from Silver Lake Park in November 2021 my day was not yet done. My plan was to then head for Richmond…
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I hadn’t thought of mentioning them before, but New York City streets feature states’ names. Not in concentrated blocs, like signers of the Declaration of Independence (Brooklyn), vestrymen of Trinity…
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In November 2021 it occurred to me that I had never walked the full length of Forest Avenue in Staten Island. I embarked on it, but did about half, getting…
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GLACIERS formed the original Silver Lake, converted into the southern end of New York’s Catskill water supply system as a reservoir in 1913, filling this function until 1971. The reservoir…
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THIS photo comes from a recent jaunt down Forest Avenue in Staten Island, a lengthy route that runs from Victory Boulevard to the Goethals Bridge. I only got halfway, only…
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I have been going through a batch of photos from southern Staten Island I took in January 2020 I haven’t gotten around to using yet. Have you ever seen a…
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AMBOY Road, seen here near Nelson Avenue Giffords Lane in Great Kills, is one of the lengthiest routes in Staten Island, splitting off from Richmond Road in New Dorp and…