Between Water Street and Vanderbilt Avenue (think between Tappen Park and Bayley Seton Hospital) and between Bay Street and Tompkins Avenue,...

Facing east on Richmond Terrace about 400 feet from Holland Ave - 9/25/31 View Larger Map Today The houses are described as being next to th...

Finding that little house on Port Richmond Avenue the other day was great. It reminded me that I've noticed several similar houses aro...

63 William Street - 1932 - The NYPL description states this home was owned by G.W. Rathburn in 1874. View Larger Map Today - In deepest Stap...

620 Port Richmond Avenue - seems to have been built in 1899 (though I suspect before then) View Larger Map Today

Mariner's Harbor (I haven't linked to wikipedia here because the entry seems racist and I suspect contains and urban legend) present...

St. Clement's Church - 1932 View Larger Map Today - The original wooden church has been covered with stucco and it's Catholic congre...

47 Union Avenue - 1932 - The NYPL information says a plaque over the door read "Horse Shoer and Blacksmith" View Larger Map Today

Looking at St. Michael's Church at Harbor and Brabant from the west along Lockman Avenue - In the distance you can see PS 44. View Large...

The Post House - 1900 - located on the south side of Richmond Terrace several hundred yards west of Holland Avenue. According to the NYPL...

3493 Richmond Terrace (northside) - 1931 View Larger Map Today The Fernic Aircraft Corporation was founded by Romanian aviator George Fe...

2846 Richmond Terrace - from 1924 - the homes of George and John Thompson, both in the oyster business View Larger Map 18 South Avenue - a...

Be sure to go to the publisher's home page and check out some of their other books . I know there's got to be a Republican versio...

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...