In 1930, William T. Davis and Charles W. Leng , co-founders of the Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences , published their fiv...

   Well, looks like it's all done for another four years and I can stop obsessing about things I really can't do much about and I...

  Fortunately, my wife and I survived Hurricane Sandy with power intact.  Though less than half a mile from the waterfront we live 186' ...

   Reading SI Live this morning I came across this great bit of news . Tomorrow numerous historic Island places will be open for tours.  It...

   For the next several months, the Museum of the City of New York , located at 1220 Fifth Avenue and 103rd St in Manhattan , will present...

   Fox Hills, a portion of Clifton , was once a prosperous place of large homes, a golf course and open fields.  In 1860, according to the ...

   According to some random website I found, a sewer interceptor is one that " in a combined system, control(s) the flow of sewage to t...

  I've written a little bit about Dr. Samuel Mackenzie Elliott before.  What I've never written about ('cause I didn't re...

There are so many things about Deep Purple I love.  Jon Lord's organ playing was easily one of the most important and distinctive parts...

   Sorry I've been so lax here for the longest time.  I'm going to try to get back in the saddle and all that jazz and start wr...

   We weren't perfect then and we aren't perfect now.  Along the way from then to now a lot of blood's been shed and often in ...

   Last year I posted pictures of the Chinese restaurant that used to be up on the second floor of a building near the old Woolworth's...

   Vote for Rossville AME at  www.partnersinpreservation.com  to get this nationally important church grant dollars. Part of Historic San...

  So passes the last of the Band's trio of vocalists (Richard Manuel in 1986 and Rick Danko in 1999) and the only American in such an Am...

   The commercial heart of Stapleton is always assumed to be located at Canal and Water Streets along Tappen Park.  Well that's probably...

   For over thirty years Stapleton was my home.  For all sorts of reasons my life revolved around the neighborhood.  My mom would go shoppi...

   A few more landmarks from Van Duzer and nearby blocks.   Fire Engine Co. 154 - This magnificent building still stands now converte...