View Larger Map From what I've been able to gather, Jersey Street was once a vibrant working class immigrant community stretching from t...

In my research I've discovered the existence of several defunct churches now in service as something else. Sometimes it's fairly o...

Standard Varnish Works So in tooling around the NYPL Digital Collection, I came across this old illustration of the "Standard Varnish ...

Here's a colored postcard of the Actor's Home in West New Brighton. Yeah, it was a pretty building.

All I know is that the picture claims to be of a Methodist Episcopal Church on Harbor Road at Journeay Street. Now there's a Pentecosta...

E.R. Eddison - The Worm Ourboros and the Zimiamvia Trilogy A writer I know a bit about but I haven't been able to read yet. Meani...

For some time I've wondered at the history of the small church on Willowbrook Road near Forest Avenue just by the Burger King. Now it ...

Once there was a beautiful building designed to house down at their heels actors who'd reached the latter stages of their lives. Now it...

Originally this mansion (one of the few remaining from Staten Island's "Golden Age") was built for one of the Vanderbilt Fam...

When the Methodist Church seemed to collapse on Staten Island's North Shore in the late sixties, Summerfield Methodist Church survived. ...

I don't know much, in fact nothing, about the history of this church. I guess it flourished in the days when the street names of Marin...

Nestled away near the Lawgiver's home, this beautiful old red brick church was initially built as the Mariner's Harbor Baptist Churc...

Tucked away in the back streets of Stapleton is the beautiful old First Presbyterian Church. It clearly was once an active and wealthy con...

Even when I was little Stapleton was still a major commercial hub. The decay triggered by the Stapleton Houses and the methadone clinic we...

I remember my mom talking about going to Tompkins when she was a kid. It was one of the first real department stores on the island and sup...

Levi Stubbs died yesterday. He'd been sick for some time and hadn't toured in eight years. I obviously didn't know the man ...

I've added links were possible and changed some of the art.

In 1961, Michael Moorcock wrote a letter published in the magazine Amra asking for a name for the sort of story written by Robert E. Howard....

The House (Obviously) - Not taken from the exact same vantage spot as the house is fronted by a large hedge and there's a great big pine...

Yesterday I emptied and cleaned the basement. Then, using a formula my wife found online, with lime purchased at Reiman's Hardware , ...