So the luminous Mrs. V and I just returned from a two and a half week trip to England. Our initial plan was to follow the Two Moors Way Tr...

Every time I get insane because of the incompetence of the legislature in Albany or the arrogant dictator running the city I deeply love, a ...

Proof that we're in the stupid times.

Northern Mockingbird These avian nightmares have infested the trees about my home and start calling to each other at 2:30 am. As recent...

Above: 654 Richmond Terrace - 1932 View Larger Map 654 Richmond Terrace - still vacant Above and Below: 632 Richmond Terrace at the s/w corn...

View Larger Map Staten Island or Arkham? You decide. Is this a run down string of buildings on Sentinel Street or just York Avenue in New...

Running from Tompkinsville to Stapleton and then to Concord and parallel to St. Paul's Avenue, Van Duzer Street is lined with some of ...

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...