TIME for another sojourn in Staten Island, this time along the waterfront areas of St. George, Tompkinsville, Stapleton, Clifton and Rosebank along Upper New York Bay where it becomes The…
Staten Island
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LATELY I have been revisiting my Names of the Neighborhoods series over at SpliceToday but I hadn’t tackled Staten Island and Manhattan yet. Staten Island has a number of curious…
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AFTER reaching Richmond Avenue by walking Forest Avenue west from Silver Lake Park in November 2021 my day was not yet done. My plan was to then head for Richmond…
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I hadn’t thought of mentioning them before, but New York City streets feature states’ names. Not in concentrated blocs, like signers of the Declaration of Independence (Brooklyn), vestrymen of Trinity…
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In November 2021 it occurred to me that I had never walked the full length of Forest Avenue in Staten Island. I embarked on it, but did about half, getting…
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GLACIERS formed the original Silver Lake, converted into the southern end of New York’s Catskill water supply system as a reservoir in 1913, filling this function until 1971. The reservoir…
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THIS photo comes from a recent jaunt down Forest Avenue in Staten Island, a lengthy route that runs from Victory Boulevard to the Goethals Bridge. I only got halfway, only…
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I have been going through a batch of photos from southern Staten Island I took in January 2020 I haven’t gotten around to using yet. Have you ever seen a…
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AMBOY Road, seen here near Nelson Avenue Giffords Lane in Great Kills, is one of the lengthiest routes in Staten Island, splitting off from Richmond Road in New Dorp and…
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As I have mentioned on a (much) earlier Forgotten New York page back in 2001, Staten Island is rife with natural areas and ponds that never made the traditional maps,…
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CLOVE Lakes Park’s name, and that of the road that borders it, has nothing to do with clover; instead, it is derived from the Dutch term for “cleft,” and to…
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Happy Saturday. A short time ago, a couple of collectors posted on Facebook some photos of examples of these Staten Island street signs in their possession, which they had restored…