Continued from Part One DURING the Forgotten New York era, I’ve only discussed Travis, Staten Island, in depth twice, in 2006 and 2015. Thus, I decided a repeat visit was more than warranted…
Travis
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As the final frontier of urbanization, Staten Island has some of the city’s last working farms. Among them is the former Mohlenhoff farm that was acquired by the Parks Department…
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DURING the Forgotten New York era, I’ve only discussed Travis, Staten Island, in depth twice, in 2006 and 2015. Thus, I decided a repeat visit was more than warranted in…
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CRABBS Lane is about as far out in New York City as you can get, as it sits on an orphaned portion of Victory Boulevard near the West Shore Expressway…
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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…
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In the fall of 2015 I realized that it had been a full decade since I had been to Travis, which is about as far west as you can get…
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A lonely outpost even by Staten Island standards is Travis, a small village of about two thousand at the western end of Victory Boulevard. In the colonial period, it was…
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If it’s possible, Sylvan Cemetery, at the end of Victory Boulevard in Staten Island in the small town of Travis, had been in even worse shape than Prospect Cemetery was…