Staten Island

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…

I will be posting on NYC’s newest mass transit station (by 16 days!) soon, and will also have something about Tottenville soon too, but for now, here’s the remnants of…

I was looking out a bus window at Richmond Avenue and Arthur Kill Road in Greenridge, Staten Island, when I spotted a rarely-employed double bracket Donald Deskey pole. Never widely…

Inez Street is a dead end issuing from the north side of  fast and furious Hylan Boulevard at Lemon Creek Park, west of Seguine Avenue. This is an area that…

As of August 2017, two separate sources have confirmed it: This vintage pair of street signs on Richmond Road and Court Place have vanished, likely into the scrap heap of…

I am feeling a little wearied from composing multipart Sunday pages, so I think I’ll reach back into my mixed bag of tricks. I haven’t done one of these tutti…