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…
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Though the Staten Island ferry terminal main building was completely renovated in 2005 (which removed, among some other things, the ancient track indicators for the Staten Island Railway) there’s this…
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In the Asbury Methodist churchyard, on Richmond Avenue south of Signs Road, rests a figure who inadvertently became an indelible name in American literature. Before you is the gravesite of…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When we think of the city’s oldest drawbridges, the retractable examples on Borden Avenue across Dutch Kills and Carroll Street across Gowanus Canal come to mind. But those…
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The cornerstone for the Masonic Temple for Huguenot Lodge #381 on Main Street south of Amboy Road was laid with great fanfare on June 12, 1909. There was a gathering…
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Some of Staten Island’s most picturesque architecture can be found in Hamilton Park, a small subdivision of New Brighton, about 3/4 of the way from the Staten Island Ferry to…
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Continued from Part 1 When I left off last week, I had just entered Midland Beach, which is only partially developed as the ground is quite marshy and punctuated by…