As a rule, NYC streets are given designations, seemingly arbitrarily, by the engineer who is plotting the map years before buildings on the streets are actually constructed. In Manhattan, with…
Staten Island
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KNOWING the toll modernization was taking on the island, and perhaps presciently imagining the devastation to be wreaked on Staten Island’s old and out-of-the-way places by the opening of the…
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OWLS Head Park is Bay Ridge’s largest public park, stretching between the Belt Parkway, Colonial Road and 68th Street, and its high hill provides a prime viewing spot during Brooklyn’s occasional…
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THE rundown and somewhat neglected neighborhood of Stapleton on Staten Island’s eastern shore isn’t thought of as a hotbed of classic architecture but it does have pockets of excellence. Recently…
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CAN it be over a decade since I have walked around in Grasmere, Staten Island, the next neighborhood west of Rosebank (where I have been multiple times, including a week…
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SADLY I have never visited Big Nose Kate’s, a saloon way out in Rossville, at 2484 Arthur Kill Road, tucked near the huge Old Bermuda catering hall next to the…
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At the southernmost point in New York is Conference House Park, which Kevin visited a few times over the past quarter century, always finding something new to document. The park…
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SOMETIMES historic buildings are hiding in plain sight. Take this unassuming two-story house on Woodrow Road and Rossville Avenue, in an area that has gone from rural to suburban to…
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To the Forgotten NY archives we again go, this time to November, 2015, in what turned out to be my last ride on the venerable John F. Kennedy Staten Island…
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From the Forgotten NY archives from 2016… In 2017, Forgotten NY covered the newest station on the Staten Island Railway, Arthur Kill, which was built between the former Atlantic and…
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If you recall, last week Forgotten NY presented a photo of ancient Staten Island street signs I discovered in Tottenville at Jacob(s) Street and Bedell Avenue in 1999. I had…
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HERE’S a vintage shot that didn’t make “the cut” in the images shown during FNY’s 25th Anniversary “tours,” a series of live and Zoom presentations I have given during 2024.…