Staten Island

SON Rise Charismatic Interfaith Church can be found on Staten Island’s main north-south cross-island local street, Richmond Avenue, which roars from Port Richmond all the way to Raritan Bay, opposite…

THE southeastern northeastern tip of Staten Island, its closest approach to Long Island, has been protected by fortifications since 1663, when a Dutch blockhouse was established. The area was known…

In a borough quickly eradicating much of its historic legacy, no Staten Island neighborhood is preserving as much of its past as Port Richmond…if only from pure inertia, as it…

Guest post PAUL SHARROTTStaten Island Historian I just came across an article in the New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell, published in1956 about him exploring along the southern part of Staten…

HAMILTON Park, one of Staten Island’s most impressively concentrated areas of beautiful architecture, was begun by developer Charles Kennedy Hamilton in 1853. According to Staten Island resource, Holden’s Staten Island: …Hamilton…

EVERY so often, I like to note place names that are unique to New York City and it’s likely I won’t find another Watchogue Road with a search on Google…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In my childhood and into adulthood I’ve had a fascination with maps, to the extent that my mother wished that I’d been born 500 years…

JUST as the First Reformed Dutch Church at Flatbush and Church Avenues contains some of the best-preserved tombstones from the colonial era pre-Revolution, so does the Dutch Reformed Church in…

FRONT Street in Clifton, Staten Island runs along Upper New York Bay and past the now nearly abandoned Bayley-Seton Hospital. Here we see it with the Staten Island Railway in…

No, this isn’t a recent picture. I got it in 1999 or 2000 at Richmond Valley Road at Madsen Avenue in the south end of Staten Island, years before the…

ALTHOUGH officially, New York City is the southernmost town in New York State, Tottenville, on the southern end of Staten Island, was actually the southernmost village when it was a…

TRAVIS  is about as far west as you can get in Staten Island, at the west end of Victory Boulevard. Just as Proctor and Gamble made Mariners Harbor a company…