this is a repost from the site's facebook group, North Shore Staten Island History .    I don't know where it originated, but the ...

Moving west along Tompkins Street, we reach between Patten and Clarke Streets. The southside was actually featured in the very first Sta...

So, I already missed posting new pictures last week. I screwed up labeling the ones below and didn't fix it until just now. Sorry abo...

Clarke Avenue between Tompkins Street and the baseball field One of the problems in doing this project is the limited resources I have to...

Time has passed far too quickly, and I've done nothing but accumulate stacks and stacks of electronic pictures and done nothing with the...

This was never a block I went down much. There was really no reason too. There was an animal hospital but we had our own vet somewhere in Ro...

When I was a kid in the early seventies, Canal Street along the park was still an active business strip. There was an Army & Navy store,...

The Staten Island Archive at CSI recently replaced its malfunctioning and obsolete equipment with functioning and more obsolete equipment. B...

After a lengthy delay caused by 1)second eye surgery, 2)busted equipment at the Archive, and that ol' standby, 3)laziness, here's th...

The other day I spent a couple of hours trying to track down any pictures of the hilltop mansions from Staten Island's past. I didn'...

To make up for the debacle of the posting yesterday afternoon, I'm putting some more pictures right away.This block of Broad Street bet...

So, while I had planned to work my way from in on the backstreets to out on Broad Street, that ain't happening. Actually finding the pic...

I mentioned on Facebook in the group North Shore Staten Island Stuff about my hope of recreating the neighborhoods lost to the construction ...

Like Stapleton, Port Richmond was a major shopping district on the North Shore thru the mid-seventies. Like Stapleton, it once had several ...