Continued from Part One DURING the Forgotten New York era, I’ve only discussed Travis, Staten Island, in depth twice, in 2006 and 2015. Thus, I decided a repeat visit was more than warranted…
Staten Island
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As the final frontier of urbanization, Staten Island has some of the city’s last working farms. Among them is the former Mohlenhoff farm that was acquired by the Parks Department…
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OLD Staten Island place names are fascinating. By 2026, most of the old place names have been expunged or renamed, with a few exceptions like Fingerboard Road, named for a…
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CRABBS Lane is about as far out in New York City as you can get, as it sits on an orphaned portion of Victory Boulevard near the West Shore Expressway…
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I have been making an effort to hit various NYC neighborhoods I haven’t explored for a while. For some of these neighborhoods, 10 years is an eternity: but for some…
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IT’S a good problem to have. I have hundreds…if not thousands…of usable photos that haven’t found their way into Forgotten New York yet, because give me the opportunity and I’m…
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NON-residents of Staten Island may not know that the borough has its very own rail line which, although resembling a subway, isn’t run as a subway at all. Formerly known as…
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Time for another entry in Sergey Kadinsky’s ongoing series featuring ethnic parks and monuments, following Irish Town, Latino Town and Italian Town. Once again, listings are not presented in strict…
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AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, I…
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YOU don’t expect to find a 3-story mixed-use brick building quite like this one all the way south in Great Kills, Staten Island, but that’s what you’ve got at Amboy…
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HYLAN Boulevard in Staten Island, the longest road on the island not an expressway (though Richmond Avenue may have challenged it before its northern end was renamed Port Richmond Avenue…
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JENNY Faber, a member of the Faber pencil manufacturing family, lived in Port Richmond and in 1869 was granted a patent to the land along the Kill Van Kull in Port…