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…
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This ad for Norge Appliances, seen on Main Street north of Craig Avenue in Tottenville, probably dates to the 1950s and was likely illuminated at some point. (Norge is what…
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I have a whole batch of Tottenville photos fired off in October 2025 I have not used yet. I have been there often over the years; I remember a bus…
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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, here…
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DOCTOR John S. Westervelt (1799-1869), the first health officer of the port of New York, who had married Daniel Tompkins’s daughter Hannah, purchased a ninety-eight acre tract that formerly had…
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LOOKING through NYC scenes from the 1930s and 1940s available on 1940s.nyc, the Staten Island scenes occasionally exhibit lamppost varieties quite different from those seen in other boroughs, such as…
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SEEN here is a scene I snapped in April 2016 — fully ten years ago! — on Lafayette Avenue and Cortelyou Place in Staten Island. Many sections of Staten Island…
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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…