Between Water Street and Vanderbilt Avenue (think between Tappen Park and Bayley Seton Hospital) and between Bay Street and Tompkins Avenue, is a beautiful pocket of houses. Some are old and tumbling down while others are downright magnificent and stunningly maintained. The are was anchored once by the previously shown First Presbyterian Church (now owned by Mt. Sinai Baptist Church).
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This grand brick building is on the corner of Harrison and Quinn.
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Harrison between Quinn and Brownell, west side
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Harrison between Quinn and Brownell - east side
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Harrison and corner of Brownell, northeast side
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Arlington
Facing east on Richmond Terrace about 400 feet from Holland Ave - 9/25/31
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The houses are described as being next to the property of the Downey Shipbuilding Firm. They'd started in 1903 on Shooters Island and moved to Howland Hook in 1910. Most famously they built a yacht for the Kaiser and the three masted schooner Atlantic
Saturday, June 20, 2009
A Series of Very Old Houses
Finding that little house on Port Richmond Avenue the other day was great. It reminded me that I've noticed several similar houses around the North Shore over the life of this site. So here are some of them. I can't tell you anything about them in most cases. There aren't CofO's online for most of them and the tax information on really old homes just says they were built in 1899, not the actual year of construction.
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Jackson Street, Stapleton
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Targee Street, Stapleton
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Tompkins Street, Stapleton
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Jackson Street, Stapleton
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Targee Street, Stapleton
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Tompkins Street, Stapleton
Thursday, June 18, 2009
William Street
63 William Street - 1932 - The NYPL description states this home was owned by G.W. Rathburn in 1874.
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Today - In deepest Stapleton there remain beautiful 19th century homes maintained with loving care by their owners. I'd give my eyeteeth to be able to live in a house like this.
Port Richmond Avenue and Orange Avenue
620 Port Richmond Avenue - seems to have been built in 1899 (though I suspect before then)
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Mariners Harbor Day
Mariner's Harbor (I haven't linked to wikipedia here because the entry seems racist and I suspect contains and urban legend) presents the best neighborhood to look around at for cool old pictures and surviving old buildings. It's been a heavy industrial area, was and remains a working class neighborhood with an always diverse populations, and at one time was the heart of the Island's wealthy oystering community.
Because of various economic and demographic prejudices the Harbor stayed fairly intact (in regards to its older housing stock) till fairly recently. The beautiful big Victorian houses on along the north end of South Avenue were only demolished in the last decade or so (and even now one or two survive, crowded all around by the townhouses wedged onto the lots of their now lost compatriots). Even a few of the old captains' mansions along Richmond Terrace have stumbled along into the 21st Century.
Whenever I'm stuck for something to put up on the site I've been able to just troll through the Mariner's Harbor pictures on the NYPL site and just post away. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
Because of various economic and demographic prejudices the Harbor stayed fairly intact (in regards to its older housing stock) till fairly recently. The beautiful big Victorian houses on along the north end of South Avenue were only demolished in the last decade or so (and even now one or two survive, crowded all around by the townhouses wedged onto the lots of their now lost compatriots). Even a few of the old captains' mansions along Richmond Terrace have stumbled along into the 21st Century.
Whenever I'm stuck for something to put up on the site I've been able to just troll through the Mariner's Harbor pictures on the NYPL site and just post away. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
St. Clement's Church
St. Clement's Church - 1932
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Today - The original wooden church has been covered with stucco and it's Catholic congregation has been merged with that of St. Michael's over on Harbor Road. I'm not sure what's in the building at present.
47 Union Avenue
47 Union Avenue - 1932 - The NYPL information says a plaque over the door read "Horse Shoer and Blacksmith"
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St. Michael's Church - Harbor Road and Brabant Street
Looking at St. Michael's Church at Harbor and Brabant from the west along Lockman Avenue - In the distance you can see PS 44.
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Today - Now called St. Clement's and St. Michael's. It's a poor quality googlemaps pictures but it's what I've got to work with at work.
The Post House
The Post House - 1900 - located on the south side of Richmond Terrace several hundred yards west of Holland Avenue. According to the NYPL it was built in 1691.
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Fernic Aircraft Corporation
3493 Richmond Terrace (northside) - 1931
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The Fernic Aircraft Corporation was founded by Romanian aviator George Fenric in 1929. He died in 1930 when he crashed at an air show on Curtiss Reynolds airfield in Chicago, Illinois, on October 22, 1930.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Mariner's Harbor - remants of a oysteriffic past
2846 Richmond Terrace - from 1924 - the homes of George and John Thompson, both in the oyster business
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18 South Avenue - at these times it belonged to M.A. Sinn. Prior to that it belonged to G. Hart
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c. 2007
Monday, June 1, 2009
C'mon. This is creepy
Be sure to go to the publisher's home page and check out some of their other books. I know there's got to be a Republican version of this sort of stuff and I'd find it just as creepy and wrongheaded.
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