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…
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Staten Island has several land-anchored active lighthouses (Brooklyn and the Bronx have one apiece). The Staten Island Lighthouse, built on Edinboro Road in Lighthouse Hill near Richmondtown from 1907-1912 and operating…
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On my bus trips in Staten Island as a kid in the early 1960s, I paid close attention to signage, lampposts, lamp fixtures, stoplights, and other things that 5-to-8-year-old boys…
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This beautiful building, #48 Manor Court in Lighthouse Hill, Staten Island, is Frank Lloyd Wright’s sole private home design in New York City, yet he never saw its completion, as…
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The Gardiner Tyler Mansion, 27 Tyler Avenue between Bement Avenue and Clove Road, was constructed circa 1835 when most of the surrounding region consisted of farms and fields. President John Tyler’s…
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Though the North Shore Branch of the Staten Island Railway ended passenger service in 1953, and freight service east of Arlington some years later, a short stretch of extant tracks…
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On Saturday, May 9th, 2015 ForgottenFans enjoyed a verdant walk through one of Staten Island’s best neighborhoods, and in the top five in New York City, in St. George, Staten…