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The New York Public Library (NYPL)'s New Dorp branch at 309 New Dorp Lane, is one of the busiest libraries on Staten Island. [32] The one-story branch was established by local residentsand opened in 1907 as the New Dorp Community Library.
New Dorp Beach, October 2012, on the site of the old Clearwater Beach Colony that was torn down around 1965. New Dorp Beach is along the shore of the neighborhood of New Dorp, on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is between Midland Beach and Oakwood Beach.
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 ...
The Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum is a private burial site adjacent to the Moravian Cemetery in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City.It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century, when the Vanderbilt family was the wealthiest in America.
New Dorp station is located in an open cut at New Dorp Lane and Railroad Avenue on the main line. It has two side platforms and orange colored walls and railings. The northbound platform has a 20-foot (6.1 m) high concrete wall, while the southbound platform has a hill.
In 1776, General William Howe, with his aides-de-camp and 30,000 British and Hessian soldiers, was encamped on Staten Island awaiting orders to invade New York City. During that time, the tavern became the local British headquarters. [1] On July 9, 1776, General Howe read the United States Declaration of Independence to his troops at this ...
New Dorp Beach (2012), where 14 acres were purchased in 1879 for building the hospital. The Staten Island land acquired along the shore of New Dorp Beach was used for what became St. John's Guild Seaside Hospital. Although the hospital was not dedicated until June 1899, [1] the prior year, in September, they reported handling 255 newborns. [2]
The New Dorp Lighthouse is a decommissioned lighthouse located in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York City.Funds for the lighthouse were approved by United States Congress on August 31, 1852 and the structure was completed in 1856.