After a lengthy delay caused by 1)second eye surgery, 2)busted equipment at the Archive, and that ol' standby, 3)laziness, here's th...

The other day I spent a couple of hours trying to track down any pictures of the hilltop mansions from Staten Island's past. I didn'...

To make up for the debacle of the posting yesterday afternoon, I'm putting some more pictures right away.This block of Broad Street bet...

So, while I had planned to work my way from in on the backstreets to out on Broad Street, that ain't happening. Actually finding the pic...

I mentioned on Facebook in the group North Shore Staten Island Stuff about my hope of recreating the neighborhoods lost to the construction ...

Like Stapleton, Port Richmond was a major shopping district on the North Shore thru the mid-seventies. Like Stapleton, it once had several ...

Here's a set of Yesterday and Today pictures. It's the Capitol Theater on Broadway just above the corner of Castleton Avenue. One of...

PS 17, a fairly standard looking school once stood on the heights overlooking York and Jersey Streets. The bit of woods visible in the ri...

To look at the buildings on Bay Street in the past and then today, it's as if they've melted. The intricate details that were ju...

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 ...