Louis P. Gratacap Before I bought the glorious "Good Prospect" I now live in, I saw several other properties. All were too exp...

The facebook group I created is called North Shore Staten Island Stuff . It's not particularly active at this point, with no one respon...

New Brighton around Hamilton Park - 1874 Hamilton Park detail - 1874 - Pritchard House circled in red Hamilton Park - 1917 Here the Pritch...

NE corner of Vreeland and Castelton, summer 1936 View Larger Map I've been working on some elaborate posts using the 1874 maps of my ne...

sw corner of Caroline and Castleton, c. 1927 You can see that the no longer extant fake mansard roof and gables was already decaying. As ...

Hero Park was built on land donated by Dr. Louis and Berta Dreyfus back in 1920. The centerpiece of the park was (and still is) the glaci...

So I started a facebook group called "North Shore Staten Island Stuff" in order to get the Ape word out to more people. I admit ...

A recent first time visit to Meislohn-Silvie Funeral Hom e the other day got me to looking around at the Pathmark plaza and the tangle of...

I'm always (sort of) on the lookout for postable stuff, information and above all photos. In particular I'm looking for pictures fr...

High atop a hill in Eldorado, or at least Grymes Hill, Staten Island, stood a castle. A wonderful castle built by beer and with German ...

The intersection of Port Richmond Avenue and Richmond Terrace is a place I've gone to for pictures and postings several times before. ...

I've been away for awhile. The luminous Mrs. V and I took and extended road trip west through Ontario and America's northern tier ...

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 ...