One of the things I can never quite wrap my head around as I do my excavation of the history of Staten Island's North Shore is the amoun...

Looking north on Van Duzer Street from corner of Beach Street - 1926 vs. today The building on the right side was still standing ...

I haven't posted much on this site over the past few years because it's become hard to find the sorts of things that interest me. ...

I've seen this post card for years now but I never took the ten minutes or so to figure out exactly where these two house were. I just ...

   Many readers of this site (or group) know that Snug Harbor used to have a beautiful church standing next to the theater: the Randall Me...

- left -    93 Franklin Avenue  - 1930 - right - same site today left -  105 Franklin Avenue  - 1930  - right...

Doing a little research in the NY Times' on-line archives, I came across the sad story of a murder in Port Richmond over a hundred ...

   Somehow I've never posted pictures of this Golden Age remnant before now.  The Gardiner-Tyler House  was built in 1837 (according to ...

   So Detroit's dying.  Michigan's governor filed for bankruptcy to get the city out from under its massive debt.  A judge may have ...