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…
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A survivor from… a long time ago
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A couple of streets in New Dorp may show the influence of Irish immigrants: Belfast Avenue and Behan Court, and L-shaped lane between Amboy Road and Beach Avenue. Brendan Behan (pronounced BAY-an, 1923-1964;…
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photo: Bob Mulero As Kenny Rogers says, you gotta know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em. I’m going to withhold specifying the exact location of this…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 GOOGLE MAP: PRINCE’S BAY One of the places I visited in 2005, and have only been in once or twice since, is Prince’s Bay, on the…
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In February 2005 I was a Staten Islander for a week! I may have told this story before in one of my Staten Island pages, but I like telling it.…
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It costs usurious and confiscatory amounts of money to get to Staten Island from Brooklyn or New Jersey by auto on any one of four bridges, but getting there by…
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photo: Stephen Gembara I don’t remember much about my very young childhood prior to age 6 or so but I do remember streetlamps and street signs. A friend has this…