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"NYC Neighborhoods Map", NYC Department of City Planning, 2014. "Staten Island neighborhoods: What you need to know about all 63 communities" , Staten Island Advance , 2015. v
Grymes Hill: 50: Sylvan Grove Cemetery: Sylvan Grove Cemetery: August 24, 2015 : Victory Boulevard at Glen St. Travis–Chelsea: Established 1795, many people important in developing Staten Island are buried here. 51: Temple Emanu-El: Temple Emanu-El
Special Hillsides Preservation District. The Special Hillsides Preservation District was created in 1987 by the City of New York to preserve the hilly terrains of the North Shore of Staten Island. The district maintains different planning rules to the rest of the City to account for the geological and bio diversity of the area. [1]
Ward Hill is a hill and eponymous neighborhood located in the northeastern part of Staten Island, New York City.Ward Hill is the northernmost of a chain of hills that stretch approximately halfway across Staten Island, which at one point (on Todt Hill, toward the southern end of the chain) rises to 410 feet (125 m), the highest elevation found that close to the seabord south of Maine in the ...
Grymes Hill is a 374 feet (114 m) tall hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York. [1] It is the second highest natural point on the island and in the five boroughs of New York City . The neighborhood of the same name encompasses an area of 0.894 square miles (2.32 km 2 ) and has a population of 8,263 people.
In 1987, the Staten Island Historical Society purchased and relocated the Jacob Crocheron farmhouse (built ca. 1819-1820 [6]) to Historic Richmond Town from its original location at 84 Woodrow Road in the Annadale section of Staten Island, [7] a distance of over 3.1 miles. In the process of moving the building, DOT issued the house seven ...
Alice Austen (1866–1952), photographer, lifelong resident of Staten Island [5] Sir Roderick W. Cameron (1825–1900), shipping company owner; Nicole Malliotakis (born 1980), Republican member of the New York Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives and first Hispanic-American elected to a Staten Island district [6] Gianni Russo (born 1943 ...
The theater was built for Staten Island theater operator Solomon Brill and opened in 1929. Eugene De Rosa was the St. George Theatre's main architect, and was assisted by Staten Island resident James Whitford, while the ornate Spanish and Italian Baroque interior of the St. George Theatre was designed by Nestor Castro. The theatre was renovated ...