This was never a block I went down much. There was really no reason too. There was an animal hospital but we had our own vet somewhere in Ro...

When I was a kid in the early seventies, Canal Street along the park was still an active business strip. There was an Army & Navy store,...

The Staten Island Archive at CSI recently replaced its malfunctioning and obsolete equipment with functioning and more obsolete equipment. B...

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...