For as long as I can remember (and some days that further back than others), I can recall seeing numerous rusting boats and small ships i...

So I don't know exactly why this massive retaining wall was so named but I'll guess it's the obvious one - it cost a million dol...

Lehane, Denis Gone Baby Gone - solid crime writing Pelecanos, George Shame the Devil - overdone crime writing Smith, Scott ...

This lovely tie was bought for me by my Aunt K. She was quite aware of my infatuation with all things New York City and I had recently becom...

I won't talk about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because my own feelings are long, complicated and too depressing to wade through rig...

So I've been distracted from posting my bits 'o' nostalgia because I got married. I haven't forgotten my loyal readers (bo...

I don't know how that book made it there. I lived in that cold, dank town for three years. I can't tell you enough how cold and ...

Here's a picture of my slowly growing library of New York and Staten Island books. It's a collection of big easily obtained things...

I, and most of my friends growing up, were born at the original Staten Island Hospital on Castleton Avenue at the head of Cebra Avenue. ...

First Richard Widmark,now Charlton Heston . If you think you know Heston's work just by some of his duller, stolider performances, che...

While I'm hoping to put together something about the old Staten Island Hospital this week, I'm working on two larger projects. The...

So I promised pictures and I didn't deliver right away. I apologize. I have a few bigger projects connected with this site percolating...

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...