Once upon a time, when Staten Island was a playground for the more than moderately wealthy, stately homes and near palaces graced the county...

I never see my the comments people make when they make them only noticing them weeks after the fact. Well, a Dave left me information abou...

Sorry my only posts lately haven't been particularly Staten Islandy, but, hey, what can I tell you? I've written about, and poste...

I was introduced to the original pamphlet-style D & D rules by Densel E. in the Boy Scouts back in 1977 or so. He had Blackmoor , Gre...

Gutfeld makes me laugh and he's right on target. I feel like I've taken crazy pills when Paul Krugman gets worked up over anti-Pel...

View Larger Map Like something out of Edgar Rice Burroughs or Robert E. Howard, this tall cylinder can been seen peeking out from behind the...

I wish I had a picture of Elizabeth Snowden Nichols' home. Named Vale Snowden, it stood on the lower southern slope of Grymes Hi...

Rep. Alcee Hastings, (D) 23rd Florida This is a man who was impeached and removed from the federal bench by fellow Democrats back in 1988...

The Lyric Theater - in Rosebank at the on Tompkins near Clifton View Larger Map Apparently you can buy this bit of Staten Island theatric...

Once upon a time Staten Island was a home and playground for the rich. Names like Vanderbilt, Barrett and Tompkins still mark our neighbor...

When I was a kid growing up on Cebra most of the kids around me who were Catholic went to Our Lady of Good Counsel for school and chur...

St. Simon's Chapel - demolished and rebuilt on Richmond Road When I came across the Bethlehem Orphan and Half Orphan Asylum I dis...

View Larger Map In perusing the maps of Rosebank and Fort Wadsworth I wander a little south of my usual hunting grounds and discovered so...

/> Nice little postcard of the intersection of Fingerboard and Tompkins looking south towards Fox Hill Villa (by then already a part of t...

Came across this beautiful bright blue New York harbor view. You can see the old Cromwell piers in Tompkinsville, the rail yards at the...

MacGregror Arms Apartments - 1925 In 1965 the late Richard and Jane Vredenburgh moved into this fine building following their marriage. ...

Our computer died last night. Got a new Tb hard drive in the mail for tomorrow and after an XP install hope to salvage data from the old d...

So killing time and trying to watch the Fletch movies on netflix. Uff da! I can't believe how unwatchable they proved to be. I rem...

View Larger Map Michigan Central Station - built 1913, closed 1988 Mayor Dave Bing , elected last year in the wake of Mayor Kwame Kilpatr...

So I've been listening to a bunch of seventies music lately and in telling the luminous Mrs. V. about it I mentioned I thought "Lay...