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View of the Postcards memorial. Postcards is an outdoor sculpture in St. George, Staten Island, New York City, United States.Built in 2004, it is a permanent memorial honoring the 274 Staten Island residents killed in the September 11 attacks of 2001 and in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
St. George Cricket Grounds or more properly just St. George Grounds is a former baseball venue located on Staten Island, New York. St. George was the home park for the New York Metropolitans of the American Association for the 1886 and 1887 seasons. [1] The grounds were also a part-time home to the New York Giants of the National League in 1889.
In 1997, Danny Aiello hosted, and Geraldo Rivera served as commentator for, a 57-minute documentary titled Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook, which revisits Staten Island's Willowbrook State School, "remembering the over 5,000 children who were living in the facility at the time and focusing on three former residents, to see how the ...
Public School 15 (Daniel D. Tompkins School) (Staten Island Area Office, Office of Building Services, Division of School Facilities, New York City Board of Education) November 19, 1996: Public School 20 Annex, 160 Heberton Ave March 22, 1988: Public School 28 (Former), 276 Center St September 15, 1998: Reformed Church of Huguenot Park
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is a historic cemetery for African Americans in the Oakwood neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. It is named for abolitionist, orator, statesman, and author Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), although he is not buried there. It has burial sites for numerous prominent African Americans, including a pioneering ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Staten Island, or in other words in Richmond County, New York, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a ...
1808 - Staten Island "became the borough of Richmond in Greater New York". [2] 1812 - War of 1812. [2] 1817 – Richmond Turnpike Company ferry begins operating to New York City. 1823 – Population: 6,135. [11] c.1825 – Old Staten Island Dyeing Establishment incorporated. [12] 1826 – Agricultural Society organized. [13]
Staten Island (/ ˈ s t æ t ən / STAT-ən) is the southernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York. The borough is separated from the adjacent state of New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull and from the rest of New York by New York Bay.