Staten Island

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…

The forlorn remains of the tug Philip T. Feeney can be found at the source of Port Richmond Avenue just north of Richmond Terrace at the Kill Van Kull. This isn’t an…

A survivor from… a long time ago

Without a doubt, the most decrepit transit station of any kind in New York City (and that’s saying something, given the condition of the BMT Chambers Street station under City…

In the fall of 2015 I realized that it had been a full decade since I had been to Travis, which is about as far west as you can get…

Parts of New Brighton, Staten Island contain some of the handsomest streets, house for house, in New York City. Other parts are utterly forlorn and downright forbidding in spots. Guess…

You have to like a guy with a name like August Schoverling. They don’t give out names like that any more. And you also have to love that Schoverling, a…