I just came across the site for our borough's own historian. The Staten Island Historian , is an unpaid post that was occupied by the ...

Work and labors for my upcoming wedding have prevented me from getting out and getting the pictures I need to show in contrast to the olde-t...

The first inkling of what would become the present version of Ape Shall Not Kill Ape came about when I saw the following poster: The utter d...

Reeve, Philip Starcross Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis Through the Looking Glass Chestert...

THE CAUSEWAY AT SILVER LAKE PARK In 1980 and 1981, New York City suffered one of the greatest droughts in its history. Its reservoirs dropp...

Later today I hope to post pictures and a story about one of my more noteworthy adolescent undertakings.

My friend's brother went to school in Wisconsin and discovered Dungeons & Dragons in its early pamphlet form. My friend brought th...

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...