PORT RICHMOND 2014
Forgotten New York - I return to Port Richmond frequently — it’s New York City’s version of one of those innumerable small towns around the country whose downtowns have been Wal-Marted to death, as…...
View ArticleCAPT. PHILIP T. FEENEY, Port Richmond
Forgotten New York - The forlorn remains of the tug Philip T. Feeney can be found at the source of Port Richmond Avenue just north of Richmond Terrace at the Kill Van Kull. This isn’t an… Forgotten New...
View ArticleGRIFFITH BLOCK, Port Richmond
Forgotten New York - Port Richmond has its beginnings in the 1690s and early 1700s when Dutch and French colonists settled here. After the landowning Haughwout family laid out the town’s tight street...
View ArticleCARNEGIE LIBRARY, Port Richmond
Forgotten New York - Here’s a taster from a series of photos I shot in Port Richmond and New Brighton, Staten Island, in December 2016. I had to cut my walk short after 3… Forgotten New York -
View ArticlePORT RICHMOND-CASTLETON AVENUE, Part 1
Forgotten New York - I found myself once again in Port Richmond midweek in December 2016, the subject of a number of FNY forays over the years. The story has been told here many… Forgotten New York -
View ArticlePORT RICHMOND-CASTLETON AVENUE, Part 2
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 I found myself once again in Port Richmond midweek in December 2016, the subject of a number of FNY forays over the years. The story has… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleSVEA HALL, Port Richmond
Forgotten New York - At Post Avenue and Driprock Street in Port Richmond you will find this formerly grand brick structure, with Corinthian columns and arched windows, most of which have had plywood...
View ArticleBAYONNE FERRY SIGN, Port Richmond
Forgotten New York - There’s a very old, rusted, arrow-shaped sign pointing toward New Jersey on Richmond Terrace just east of Port Richmond Avenue, and if you look carefully you can just make out…...
View ArticleFOREST AVENUE, West Brighton
Forgotten New York - In November 2021 it occurred to me that I had never walked the full length of Forest Avenue in Staten Island. I embarked on it, but did about half, getting… Forgotten New York -
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Forgotten New York - AFTER reaching Richmond Avenue by walking Forest Avenue west from Silver Lake Park in November 2021 my day was not yet done. My plan was to then head for Richmond… Forgotten New...
View ArticleDUTCH REFORMED CEMETERY, PORT RICHMOND
Forgotten New York - JUST as the First Reformed Dutch Church at Flatbush and Church Avenues contains some of the best-preserved tombstones from the colonial era pre-Revolution, so does the Dutch...
View ArticleNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP DISTRICT SCHOOL — PS 20
Forgotten New York - In a borough quickly eradicating much of its historic legacy, no Staten Island neighborhood is preserving as much of its past as Port Richmond…if only from pure inertia, as it…...
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