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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Sad Ferries

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As a native Staten Islander I grew up riding the ferry into Manhattan on a regular basis. Whenever relatives descended on us from New Engl...

USS Mahan

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border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335855349518610402" /> Built in 1936 in Mariner's Harbor, Staten...

Bethlehem Steel in Mariner's Harbor

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There was a period when Staten Island was an industrial town. In Mariner's Harbor, Bethlehem Steel built destroyers during WW II. T...

Cool Page - Staten Island Air Field

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Just tooling around I found this cool looking site dedicated to lost or forgotten air fields and there's a page about State Island. Ni...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Dom Deluise, RIP

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Forever a sideman to Burt Reynolds and a minor player in things like "Sherlock Holmes Younger Brother", Dom Deluise was one funny,...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Lost Richmond Terrace

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Last year in posting a picture of Richmond Terrace I realized that I was seeing a lost series of tenements and shops along it where it meets...

A Belated Return - Missing Churches of Port Richmond

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So last November and December I did several postings on the churches of Port Richmond. I chose the neighborhood because it's got the l...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

ARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! revisited

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So I'm just a great, big, doofus, dummyhead. Or some such listing of adjectives denoting my idiocy. The pictures didn't upload b...

Gettysburg

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Little and Big Round Tops Last week the luminous Mrs. V and I took a short trip down to Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The prim...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

ARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

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Pictures won't upload to blogger. I actually have things to post today. Arrgghhh!!!
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Well this made me sad.

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Dog braves Staten Island traffic to guard dead companion
Thursday, April 02, 2009

WPA Photo Project

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Yesterday I was able to make some time and spend a few hours looking at the microfiche of the WPA photos of all the block and lots on Staten...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

More Lost Churches of the North Shore

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The original St. Adalbert on Morningstar Road. I know several people who feel the new church is cold and normally I think I'd agree bu...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Lost Churches of Staten Island

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I've alluded to, and even posted about, several of the North Shore's lost churches. These are the ones that time and tide have ove...

Notes

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So I haven't posted all that much lately. Partly it's been because of various home and other commitments but it's mostly becau...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Some Architectural Finds

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Clinton Avenue near Prospect Avenue View Larger Map Van Duzer Street - just north of Beach Street This house, once owned by someone known as...
Friday, February 27, 2009

The Theaters of Stapleton Revisited

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I posted a request for photos of the North Shore on the Stapleton section of the SILive Forums. Based on previous experiences with some of...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Richmond Theater - Stapleton

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Here's a lovely colored postcard of the Richmond Theater on Wright Street. View Larger Map
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Stapleton, Yet Again

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I've put up lots of pictures of Stapleton, and particularly the Tappen Park area, so I figured I might as well put up some more. Down ...

Some Comparison Shots

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Here are a series of pictures and their matching googlemaps shots that just happened to catch my eye. I'm sorry I haven't been pos...
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