As promised, here's some fresh off the digital camera shots of the gradually collapsing Smith Infirmary of the original Staten Island Ho...

   So here we are, 350 years old.  Did anyone attend any of the various seminars and events held commemorating the Island's 350th birthd...

  As a native Staten Islander born the year after the Verrazano Bridge was opened, I grew up hearing a lot about how the Brooklyn Italians w...

The Staten Island Advance had a great page from its October 30, 1968 edition yesterday.  While hard to read, it shows several terrible pict...

   I haven't posted lately because the Christmas season is upon us.  Too many things going on and whatnot.  But I'm still excited ab...

   According to the Advance the other day, the old heart of the original Staten Island Hospital, the Smith Infirmary, is about to end its da...

   Escaping the same devastation caused by the creation of the Staten Island Expressway that forced St. Simon's Episcopal Church to relo...

  Once Staten Island was covered in farms.  Even when I was a boy in the early seventies some lingered on before succumbing to the bank acco...

    These splendid Victorian era mansions remain towering over the west side Jewett Avenue between Maine Avenue and the Boulevard.    The l...

1280 Richmond Terrace, 1931    This simple and attractive house sits on the sharp bend in Richmond Terrace at the foot of Pelton Avenue.  ...

618 Delafield Avenue, July, 1932      Described as a mansion on the NYPL site, this once ornate home sits on Delafield Avenue near Clove Ro...

  For those in the know, this blog's Staten Island focus started with big ideas regarding something I called "the Church Project...

  One of the games I play (in my head) is deciding whether or not a particular house might be haunted.  Sometimes it's an easier call to...

  So we (the luminous Mrs. V. and I) bought a decent Canon camera this summer and I intend to use it to revitalize this site and help out t...