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A Watery Grave for Historic Ships on Staten Island
Wooden Shipwreck at Arthur Kill Boat Graveyard. Do you know how to get to Staten Island’s most remarkable graveyard? First pass through a centuries-old roadside cemetery, (consisting of a handful of...
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A Last Look Inside a Demolished Staten Island Castle
The recently demolished “S.I. Castle” For 120 years, a castle with many names loomed over the quiet nabe of New Brighton, Staten Island. Perched on a 6 acre hilltop covered with dead creeping vines,...
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The Bayley Seton Hospital Nurses’ Residence
Inside the Bayley Seton Hospital Nurses’ Residence A floundering medical complex sits on a 20-acre campus in Stapleton on the North Shore of Staten Island. Today, eight of Bayley Seton Hospital’s...
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Bayley Seton Hospital: Part II
Flooded Hall. I wasn’t able to track down any information on the function of this obscure outbuilding of the Bayley Seton Hospital complex in Stapleton, SI. The austere, three-story edifice is the...
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Wreaking Havoc in the Staten Island Farm Colony
These dormitories are the Farm Colony’s oldest structures. At the center of Staten Island lies a bucolic expanse of ancient forest, a city-owned amalgam of parks, scout camps, and overgrown lots...
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Wandering Fort Wadsworth
Battery Weed looms over a desolate shoreline in Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. At the easternmost tip of Staten Island, a natural promontory thrusts over the seething Narrows of the New York Harbor,...
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Last Days of the Staten Island Farm Colony
A ruined Farm Colony dormitory seen through the trees. Part of what makes abandoned buildings so captivating is that their existence is ephemeral, they cannot remain decayed and crumbling forever, and...
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Murder in Mariner’s Marsh
Mariner’s Marsh, on Staten Island’s North Shore. At a bend in Staten Island’s North Shore where the Arthur Kill gives way to the Kill van Kull, there’s a strange, desolate landscape that’s equal parts...
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Dredging the Archives + May 7th Library Lecture
The spooky Walloomsac Inn in Benington, VT is actually occupied as a private residence. On Thursday, May 7th at 6:30 PM I’ll be presenting at the Mid-Manhattan Branch of the New York Public Library as...
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The Sea View Children’s Hospital
Forested views from a lower floor day room at Sea View Children’s Hospital. At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was the second leading cause of death in the city and a major world health...
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Port Reading’s McMyler Coal Dumper
The abandoned McMyler Coal Dumper in Port Reading, NJ There’s a stretch of the Arthur Kill between Rossville, Staten Island and Port Reading, New Jersey that’s something of an abandoned wonderland....
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Approaching the “Forgotten Borough”
Seagulls follow in the wake of the Staten Island Ferry. Hello friends, its been a while. I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from poking around abandoned buildings, but I’m back now with something a little...
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Scouring the “South Pole” of New York
Rotted pilings beneath Outerbridge Crossing, with views of Perth Amboy, NJ. From St. George, ride the Staten Island Railroad to the end of the line and you’re only a short walk from the southernmost...
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Ghosts of Kreischerville
Kreischer Mansion At Kreischer Street, Arthur Kill Road verges sharply right and branches into a tangle of dead-ends, hemmed in by woods and wetlands. The route winds into the heart of Charleston,...
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