In the heart of downtown Los Angeles is the neighborhood of Bunker Hill. Once it was a steep hill covered with Victorian mansions and s...

As usual I've left things till too late, but, Merry Christmas to one and all!

On Cary Avenue and Taylor Street in West New Brighton (edging perilously close to Port Richmond), stands an old factory built of red brick. ...

View Larger Map Taking Richmond Terrace westbound heading toward Mariner's Harbor and points beyond, at West New Brighton, right past...

This amazing project is something I happened across while doing my usual Staten Island research. He had a few now/then shots of SI posted ...

Until about 1986, the property across the street from my family's home on Cebra Avenue was a high, tree covered hill with an old foundat...

These two maps show the area around where I live these days at Franklin and Prospect Avenues. These maps, which I've never looked at t...

Stairs on Benziger Avenue in New Brighton I happened across a beautiful collection of North Shore hills and staircases at something called W...

View Larger Map Running parallel to Castleton Avenue for much of its generally east-west run, Forest Avenue is tied with Victory Blvd as th...

Castleton Avenue is one of the major thoroughfares of the North Shore. It stars in New Brighton near the south terminus of Jersey Street, r...

The Staten Island Ferry has its roots in private sailing vessels used to connect the island to the rest of the region going back to c...

Whatever one might think of the job of borough president (I think as the only borough wide elected city official I think, even shorn o...

Summerfield Methodist Church - 104 Harbor Road - Mariners' Harbor View Larger Map Christ United Methodist Church - 1890 Forest Avenue - ...

I'm actually embarrassed to be Swedish and American this morning. Now, don't get me too wrong, I think Obama's a sort of okay ...

I've written before about something I call 'the Great Methodist Collapse". I still don't know anything about what happene...

Once upon a time Staten Island was a Dutch settlement. Today that's mainly recalled by the existence of Dutch or Netherlands related s...