When I was a kid, my mom would take me and my sister to New Dorp to go shopping or in the summer see a Disney matinee at the Lane Movie Thea...

There's a new link on the page. It's for the NYPL's "Staten Island on the Web" section. I forgot to put it up last ...

So I found out about the postcards. All I had to do was type "W.J. Grimshaw" and postcards into google and it took me to the Grim...

So here's the other building shown in the postcards posting. If the Prospect Gables have seen better days, then this place REALLY has ...

Located only a few houses and across the street from the albatross that is the home I purchased two years ago and still can't live in, t...

These were real postcards printed at some distant time in Staten Island's past. Both building still exist (with modern pictures fortho...

I added a bunch of new links today. The first two are the most valuable but all have good things contained within. Forgotten New York is...

It's still a beautiful neo-Gothic structure. There's some minor changes (the old steeple spires are missing (which is not visible in...

I guess that Zion Lutheran moved to its present location in Westerleigh from Port Richmond in the mid sixties because they wanted a larger b...

So here's what the house looks like today. It's a pretty little house that's been kept up rather well. You can see that the ...

This cool little brick and wood house sits at the bend in Richmond Terrace at the foot of Pelton Avenue. I'll post a picture of the ho...

I love Staten Island. If you know me that probably doesn't come as any sort of a surprise, but I just wanted to get it out there for an...

Mignola/Arcudi - BPRD: The Universal Machine De Hartog, Jan - The Peacable Kingdom Marshall, William L. - Yellowthread Street Cotterill, Col...

So I haven't written anything on this useless blog in several months. for what it's worth, since July, I've read 28 books and ...

While not a sequel to "Clockers", "Freedomland" , from 1998, is set in Richard Price's fictional New Jersey cities o...

One of the authors praised by Stanley Crouch in "the Artificial White Man" for examing America and race in depth, is Richard Price...

I was looking up some background on the late historian Shelby Foote and found a lote of references to his friendship with another Southern w...

"The Artificial White Man" is Stanley Crouch's most recent collection of essays on all things American, artistic and politica...

I'm a pretty solid Bruce Willis fan and will check out most movies with him (okay, I will not see "Perfect Stranger") and one ...

Val McDermid's the author of the "Wire in the Blood" series of serial killer books that I haven't read but I have watched ...