Hanging out with Alex R. and his wife, Angie, the other day, he reminded me of one of the several places we explored when we were kids and S...

Tooling about the interweb this morning I discovered ANOTHER amazing NYC provided resource. It's the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives an...

The only memory I have personally of the S.S. White Factory out on Seguine Avenue is of watching it burn while I was at a Boy Scout O...

I just noticed NYCityMap added a new aerial view of the city from 1951. Thank you, DOITT !!!!

Port Richmond Avenue looking north toward the Bergen Ferry View Larger Map Same view today - The buildings are ramshackle, some abandoned or...

Great article in today's NY Times about the discovery of an old tombstone and its journey to the United Hebrew section of the Ocean View...

So the dog days are definitely upon us. When I walk outside I feel like I've been hammered with a sack of swamp water. It's the ...

Added a new link on the right for the PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF STATEN ISLAND . I may not agree with all of their goals but I appreciate and ...

Over 18 months ago I posted a piece about the defunct Swedish Nursing Home in Sunnyside and the Island's one remaining Vanderbilt fa...

View Larger Map This is just to give you a sense of where the various lost buildings were once located. It's also interesting to note ...

I've been thinking about Snug Harbor a bunch lately and a recent SI Advance article about artifacts coming home to Staten Island...

The pictures I've posted earlier show huge crowds. Obviously, they had to stay somewhere. There were bungalows and campgrounds, but ...

With the dread of summer upon me (I dislike the heat, the sun, the humididdity and the extra long days) I've decided to venture sout...

Wayne Kramer, one of the MC5's guitarists, after a life of missteps, drugs and jail, righted himself. Since then he's released som...

When I read that Mayor Bloomberg suggested the Times Square bomber might have been a lone crazy or "somebody with a political agenda th...

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...