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5 Boros to Freedom Educates On NY Slavery

June 12, 2019 by Alan J. Singer 2 Comments

Students from MELS High School explain the history of the Wall Street Slave MarketTwenty-five teenagers from United Community Centers youth groups in East New York, Brooklyn were amazed to learn that not only was there slavery in Brooklyn during the Revolutionary era, but that the New Lots African burial ground was now covered over by a park across the street from their community center, a park named after the Schenk slave holding family.

Inconvenient history had been erased, but it might be rewritten thanks to local community groups and the efforts of City Councilwoman Inez Barron and New York State Assemblyman Charles Barron. Community residents are discussing rebuilding the New Lots Library on part of the site and adding a museum honoring enslaved African people who helped build Kings County and then were written out of history. [Read more…] about 5 Boros to Freedom Educates On NY Slavery

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: Black History, Brooklyn, Manhattan, New York City, Staten Island

Unique Staten Island Lighthouse Boat Tour Planned

May 22, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Robbins Reef LighthouseThe National Lighthouse Museum has announced “The Great Staten Island Father’s Day Lighthouse Boat Tour,” set for Sunday, June 16, from 11 am to 2 pm.

Attendees will start at Pier 1 adjacent to the National Lighthouse Museum, 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, St. George, Staten Island, and journey up the Kill Van Kull and the Arthur Kill waterways, over to Raritan Bay and Princes’s Bay Staten Island’s southern shore. [Read more…] about Unique Staten Island Lighthouse Boat Tour Planned

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: lighthouse, Maritime History, National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island

Old Port of New York Lighthouses, Navigation Aids Lecture

March 17, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Bergen Point Lighthouse in New JerseyThe National Lighthouse Museum on Staten Island, NY is continuing its educational lecture series with “The Lost Lighthouses of Staten Island” on Thursday, April 4, 2019, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Museum.

Historian, librarian and sailor Andrew Wilson will lead an armchair cruise around the harbor visiting the vanished lighthouses and aids to navigation that made the old port of New York the greatest in the World. [Read more…] about Old Port of New York Lighthouses, Navigation Aids Lecture

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Maritime History, National Lighthouse Museum, New York Harbor, Staten Island

‘The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail’ Presentation On Staten Island

December 20, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Soldier That Wagged Her TailEmmy Award winner Dolores N. Morris is set to speak at the National Lighthouse Museum on Staten Island about her book, The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail – A Black Veteran’s Story of WWII, which chronicles her father William A. Morris Jr.’s wartime experiences with his dog, Trixie, by his side. The event takes place on Sunday, January 20, 2019 from 3 to 5 pm. [Read more…] about ‘The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail’ Presentation On Staten Island

Filed Under: Books, Events, History Tagged With: Books, Military History, National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, World War Two

Staten Island Ferry History Lecture in NYC

October 23, 2018 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Staten Island Ferry provided by National Lighthouse MuseumHistorian Patricia Salmon is set to lead a discussion on the history of Staten Island ferries, on November 8th, 2018 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at the National Lighthouse Museum, 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island.

Ferries have been running from Staten Island for more than 350 years. The ferry run we know today, ferryboats and classes, the Saint George and Whitehall terminals, ferry calamities, and those individuals who have molded the story of the Staten Island Ferry over the years will be featured. [Read more…] about Staten Island Ferry History Lecture in NYC

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: National Lighthouse Museum, New York City, Staten Island

‘Mr. Ocean Liner’ At National Lighthouse Museum Lecture Series

March 11, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

national lighthouse museumThe National Lighthouse Museum Lecture Series is set to continue on Thursday, March 15th from 6 to 8 pm with a lecture by Bill Miller at Building 11, 200 The Promenade @ Lighthouse Point, St. George, Staten Island (adjacent to the ferry) .

Called “Mr. Ocean Liner,” Bill Miller is an international authority on the subject of ocean liners and cruise ships. [Read more…] about ‘Mr. Ocean Liner’ At National Lighthouse Museum Lecture Series

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island

16 Storm Damaged Historic Sites Sharing $6.2M

August 12, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

SandyWave_slider3Governor Cuomo announced more than $6.2 million in grant awards to help 16 historically significant properties repair severe damage from Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

The projects are the second round of funding under the program. Last year, more than $5 million was awarded to 14 historically significant properties that suffered severe damage from Superstorm Sandy. [Read more…] about 16 Storm Damaged Historic Sites Sharing $6.2M

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: Brooklyn, Grants, Hurricane Sandy, Long Island, Manhattan, Nassau County, Staten Island, Suffolk County, Westchester County

NYC Event: 19th Century Immigrants Being Reinterred

March 25, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

staten-island-quarantine-new-york-marine-hospital-nyc-untapped-cities-002Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries will host the reinterment of the 19th Century Immigrants at Court House (Marine Hospital) Cemetery at Central Avenue and Hyatt Street in Staten Island on April 27th. The event is open to the public by seating is limited.

Between 1799 and 1858, Staten Island was home to the Marine Hospital Quarantine Station. ALL ships entering New York Harbor during those years were stopped and if New York medical inspectors found anyone on the ships suffering from infectious diseases they were removed and held at the Staten Island facility to await their outcome. Local residents from Staten Island, Manhattan and the adjacent communities in New Jersey were also sent to this facility. [Read more…] about NYC Event: 19th Century Immigrants Being Reinterred

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Cemeteries, Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, Immigration, Irish History, New York City, NYC, Staten Island

NYC Preservation: 2014 Six to Celebrate Announced

January 22, 2014 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

six-for-webNew York City’s Historic Districts Council (HDC) has announced its 2014 Six to Celebrate, an annual listing of historic New York City neighborhoods and institutions that merit preservation attention.

This is New York’s only citywide list of preservation priorities coming directly from the neighborhoods. [Read more…] about NYC Preservation: 2014 Six to Celebrate Announced

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Brooklyn, Historic Districts Council, Historic Preservation, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, Queens, Staten Island

Peter Feinman On New York’s ‘Ruin Porn’

December 10, 2012 by Peter Feinman 3 Comments

Ruin porn is in. Ruin porn is hot. Ruin porn is sexy. Ruin porn is the term coined by Jim Griffioen, who writes a blog about his life as a stay-at-home dad in Detroit.

As part of that effort he periodically posts photographs he has taken of the more than 70,000 abandoned buildings in his city. Such images included (as reported in the New York Times) “‘feral’ houses almost completely overgrown with vegetation; a decommissioned public-school book depository in which trees were growing out of the piles of rotting textbooks”. The term has become a familiar one in the city not without some misgivings by the locals as they watch tourists take souvenirs of their city back home. [Read more…] about Peter Feinman On New York’s ‘Ruin Porn’

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Architecture, Historic Preservation, Hudson River, Industrial History, Labor History, Mohawk River, New Jersey, Peter Feinman, Staten Island, Tourism, Transportation, Urban History

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