In one of last December's posts I wrote about about Miss Anne Flemming Cameron's wedding in 1895. It mentioned that she and the we...

A quick display looking south at the east side of York Avenue between E. Buchanan and Carlyle Streets. Once upon a time York Avenue was a ...

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 ...