West side of Harbor Road between Leyden and Richmond Terr. - Apr 23, 1932 View Larger Map Same view today These shots of Harbor Road in Ma...

East side of Van Pelt Avenue looking north to the Terrace View Larger Map Same view (more or less) today - much of the detail appears to h...

I was informed by Mrs. B. about the Museum of New York's photo archives when she sent me the following picture asking if I knew what chu...

A new link to the right - the Museum of the City of New York . The assortment of Staten Island pictures is greatly limited but it is a nice...

1928 - The Stokes Mansion two years prior to its demolition. A close look reveals a collapsing roof on the sun room in on the center first ...

The Bayonne Bridge is one of the beautiful municipal structures that remain from a lost golden age. It drive past it several times a wee...

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 ...