Staten Island
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Attention Superman: Lois Lane is in Staten Island
Haha, OK, very funny, Staten Island… Now where’s Jimmy Olsen Drive? I noticed this as I was driving down South Avenue in Staten Island last Friday. Google seems to think it’s Hughes Avenue – then again, they also insist on mislabeling the Perry White Memorial Highway as the FDR Drive, so what do they know?…
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Puzzler Answer! Where Is This Photogenic NY Lake?
Director: I need an upstate New York lake. Foliage. Picturesque, secluded, quiet, and NO city buildings on the horizon. Producer: Scouts! Time to mobilize! But remember – you have to find the lake in the five boroughs or the unions will break my legs. Panicked Newbie Scout: Where are we going to find anything like…
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A Very Strange Lawn Zoo on Staten Island
When you first see it, 724 Todt Hill Road seems like pretty much every other house in the Dongan Hills area of Staten Island. And then you see the dinosaur:
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In Search of Ichabod Crane
At the corner of Richmond Ave and Amsterdam Place on Staten Island… …is a decaying graveyard known as New Springville Cemetery: The deteriorating fence alone gives a pretty good indication of what awaits inside: The first section of the cemetery is in decent shape… As you make your way back, however, you soon come across…