Staten Island

Continued from Part 1 I found myself once again in Port Richmond midweek in December 2016, the subject of a number of FNY forays over the years. The story has…

I found myself once again in Port Richmond midweek in December 2016, the subject of a number of FNY forays over the years. The story has been told here many…

I was wandering on Fingerboard Road near Tompkins Avenue in 1999, looking for traces of the old Staten Island Railway (Staten Island Rapid Transit) right of way, when I saw…

I haven’t had the chance to nip down to Tottenville to see the newest station on the Staten Island Railway, Arthur Kill, which was built between the former Atlantic and…

Schaffer’s Tavern is an 83-year old German restaurant at Victory Boulevard and Bradley Avenue on the south end of Westerleigh, a neighborhood full of very interesting architecture from the late…

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) crusaded for a united Italy in the early to middle years of the 19th Century. In 1834 he joined Giuseppe Mazzini in the Young Italy Society; after…

The Alice Austen, one of the fleet of the Staten Island Ferry service, a part of the Department of Transportation, idles at the St. George Ferry landing on the Staten…

Continued from Part 1 About once or twice a year, I’m in south-southwest Staten Island, the southernmost point in New York State. Though “suburbanity” long ago made its way into…

About once or twice a year, I’m in south-southwest Staten Island, the southernmost point in New York State. Though “suburbanity” long ago made its way into places like Tottenville, Richmond Valley, and Charleston there are still pockets of wilderness and still touches of small town life left over. Soon enough, these small patches will be filled in.

A pair of lighthouses appear near the horizon in this picture I got at Staten Island’s Midland Beach, the Romer Shoal Lighthouse (foreground) and West Bank Lighthouse (background). From FNY’s…

Who knows how long this painted ad for Sears, Roebuck has been visible on a brick building on Richmond Terrace and Taylor Street. I last did a survey of Richmond…

Port Richmond has its beginnings in the 1690s and early 1700s when Dutch and French colonists settled here. After the landowning Haughwout family laid out the town’s tight street grid…