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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Pictures won't upload to blogger. I actually have things to post today. Arrgghhh!!!

Dog braves Staten Island traffic to guard dead companion

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Here's a lovely colored postcard of the Richmond Theater on Wright Street. View Larger Map

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 ...

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...