Staten Island

SINCE I haven’t been able to get out much, I have decided to continue my recently minted series Where It All Begins, that employs the magic of Google Street View…

BEGINNING a series here that I will return to from time to time about where NYC’s longest roads originate. My aim here is to show the “sources” of roads and…

THE Episcopal Church of St. Andrew was granted a charter by the British Queen Anne in 1712 after its inception three years earlier; that charter remains in the possession of…

WHEN I saw this unique stoplight on Father Capodanno Boulevard and Seaview Avenue in Midland Beach, I thought it might be the vanguard of a new style of simplified-design stoplights…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent FROM the Verrazano Bridge area heading south, Father Capodanno Boulevard is a pedal-to-the-metal shorefront road that was intended to serve as a highway. Among…

FLETCHER’S Castoria ads have been a staple in the Forgotten New York ancient painted ads category from the very beginning, back in 1999. They can be seen frequently in photographs…

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — Hamlet In nearly a quarter century of wandering around New York City photographing…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent WITH more than two decades of travels around the city, what hasn’t Kevin Walsh already seen? In the Staten Island neighborhood of Eltingville, Kevin documented…

To begin, I’ll quote myself from the ForgottenBook… Stapleton and Clifton are two adjacent neighborhoods on Staten Island’s northeast coast along Upper New York Bay. The Vanderbilt family held much…

HERE’S a look at the Rosebank Staten Island Rapid Transit station with a northbound train in the early 1950s. This was part of the SIRT South Shore Branch, which diverged…

In 1854, at about the same time that Henry Steinway Sr. was starting his piano empire, Balthazar Kreischer was building a brick factory in Charleston, Staten Island (Richmond County was…

THE southeastern 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 as…