Standing at the corner of Castleton Avenue and Taylor Street, this 1930 picture gives us so much more than just a great shot of ...

   There's no exclamation point because, while we have a winner, we really didn't have much participation.  It makes me a little sad...

   That's my shelf of Staten Island history books.  It's not perfect but I'm pretty proud of it.  The highlight is the co...

   For those too young to remember or new to the Island, in the early seventies, Stapleton was a bustling shopping district.  It had already...

   I spent the first three years of my life living in an apartment on Stuyvesant Place.  I went to Curtis for high school.  For much of my ...

   So, in doing research for an upcoming post called "Banksapalooza!", I discovered a ninety year old crime in Mariner...

   I've been trying to get better at posting stuff, but my usual bugaboo, laziness, has too often got the better of me.  I am working on...

   Mayor Ed Koch is gone and with him someone who seemed at times like he'd live as long as the city of New York stood.  The firs...

   While I'm a Wasp on my father's side, on my mother's I'm of  mixed Scandinavian blood only two generations off the boats....

   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 ...