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The Staten Island Lighthouse Depot was constructed on the former hospital site in 1862 by the United States Lighthouse Service (USLHS). It was the key manufacturing, storage, supply and maintenance center for the USLHS’s 3rd District. [4]
The auction concluded on January 19, 2022, with the ferry sold "as is" and "where is" to Paul Italia, Ron Castellano and Staten Island natives Colin Jost and Pete Davidson [9] for a final selling price of $280,100. [10] The new owners planned on converting the ferry into an entertainment venue at the cost of $34 million as of 2024. [11]
The depot was also intended to help expand express bus service in Staten Island, and improve service for then-36,000 Staten Islanders who used express buses. [257] A new depot had been planned for around 30 years, and attempts to secure funding lasted around a decade.
The restoration in 2006 of freight rail service to Staten Island via the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge at a cost of $72 million. The ExpressRail System, a $600 million investment in improved intermodal rail facilities at the container terminals on the west side of the Upper New York Bay and Newark Bay in New Jersey, and on Staten Island. [5]
In the early 1950s, proposals surfaced for the Willowbrook Parkway, which would extend from Staten Island Marine Park (later Great Kills Park and now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area) on the island's East Shore to the Bayonne Bridge via Egbertville and Bulls Head. [7] [8] A second highway, the West Shore Expressway, was proposed c ...
Staten Island Railroad (foreground) to Howland Hook travels the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge over the Arthur Kill and connects the Chemical Coast. Port Liberty New York at Howland Hook Marine Terminal ( 40°38′21″N 74°10′52″W / 40.6390858°N 74.1811125°W / 40.6390858; -74.1811125 ) is located at the mouth of the Arthur ...
José Ramírez-Garofalo was born on March 17, 1996, in Staten Island, New York to Kathy Garofalo, a United States National Park Service Ranger and former wildland firefighter, and Jose Ramirez-Torres a Puerto Rican United States Army veteran of the Vietnam War, retired United States National Park Service Ranger, and former wildland firefighter.
They are dispatched by the FDNY Staten Island Communications Office and operate on the FDNY Staten Island frequency. Oceanic has a roster of 38 Active members headed by Captain James Wakie. Metropolitan Fire Explorer Company was founded in 1976. [2] They are located on the grounds of Seaview Hospital in Willowbrook. While Metro Fire operates ...