Staten Island

At Post Avenue and Driprock Street in Port Richmond you will find this formerly grand brick structure, with Corinthian columns and arched windows, most of which have had plywood affixed…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The map of Staten Island is filled with former “company towns” such as Linoleumville, Kreischerville, Port Mobil, and Port Ivory. Then there’s Graniteville, which was…

I was crossing the Bayonne Bridge a few years ago with a group led by Mitch Waxman of the Newtown Pentacle, who takes a special interest in area waterways and…

In January 2018 I had the opportunity to tour the grounds of the former St. Charles Seminary in Todt Hill, Staten Island, which incorporates the Ernest Flagg Estate and its…

A consequence of the construction of various bridges connecting Staten Island to surrounding territories has been the end of its myriad of ferry services. The empire of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt…

St. George, Staten Island  was named not for the Roman noble, later martyred, who in fable slew a dragon, but rather for a land baron named George Law, who had acquired Staten…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Throughout the city there are hilltops sticking into the skyline and capes pointing into the war that were once fortified. Some still have their…

Shortly before Christmas, and before an extended freezing spell that began the day after Christmas, I took the ferry across Upper New York Bay to Staten Island and walked a…

For the last three Sundays of 2017, my intention is to throttle back just a bit, and refrain from 100+ photo multipart extravanganzas, but fear not, in the New Year…

I discovered a very old lane in Charleston, or Kreischerville, Staten Island on 10/1/17 in an unusual circumstance: A Forgotten New York tour I was leading. The group was making…

I didn’t think I’d be doing another Tottenville page, to be frank with you. I’d thought I had said all that needed to be said, the town’s history and my…

New York City’s newest transit station opened January 17th, 2017, just sixteen days after much more ballyhooed three new stations and another overhauled station fully opened as part of the…