Enoteca Maria has been open for about eight years now and is one of the best known Italian Restaurants in Staten Island, and if you ask me, being an Italian myself; I say it’s one of the best in NYC.
Yet another Staten Island Gem that many of us are unaware of, “The Seguine House or The Seguine Mansion” is a Nineteenth Century Working Estate in a Twentieth First Century New York City.
Believe it or not we had our very own “Temperance Movement” right here in the Westerleigh neighborhood of Staten Island. Picture frolicking through meadows, attending lectures, live poetry readings, ball and tennis playing, and even horseback riding all along the closely knit community known as Westerleigh. It was then a bucolic setting that housed visitors from all over the east coast. The park’s transportation was a Trolley Line running from Port Richmond at the time.
To Transcend is to go “beyond limits of ordinary experience”, go beyond the world of materialization and tangibility. This was the theme of this year’s student art exhibition at the College of Staten Island. As I walked into the show, I was approached by a professor and a student discussing an art exhibit on the wall. The professor looked at me and kindly whispered, “You can walk through, but only five minutes, I am giving a final”.
Kristin was able to visit this beautiful park this weekend for the “Bird Day Festival”. However ,she didn’t know that I was going to encounter more deer than birds and “word in the news” is that deer are on their way to being spayed soon.
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art was founded in 1945 to foster the interest, study and research of the art and culture of Tibet and its surrounding regions. The museum collects and preserves art, ethnographic objects, books, and photographs. The archivers interpret their collection through exhibits, education programs and publications.
The Staten Island Rapid Transit was dynamic in that it was a commuter railroad, with cars that were very similar to the average city subway cars; yet it was also a freight railroad that carried a majority of Baltimore and Ohio’s traffic for the New York Harbor. The first passenger train was inspected on February 1, 1860, and ran from Vanderbilt’s Landing (modern-day Clifton) to Eltingville.
Christine Osinski is a versatile artist that took refuge in Staten Island during the early 1980’s because her and her husband were pushed out of Downtown Manhattan due to rising rent. They purchased a home in the New Brighton section of Staten Island and she was inspired by the vernacular architecture and the “Working Class Milieu” that reminded her of her hometown in South Side, Chicago. She found the “unconscious arrangements” that she photographed to be somewhat surreal.
In addition to the Tibetan Museum and the Light House on the exclusive and highly desirable section of Staten Island known as Light House Hill; there is also a residential and highly aesthetic home designed by the one and only, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Many of us may be fans of Sleepy Hollow, the television series, the Tim Burton film, and originally the short story by Washington Irving. Those familiar know that the story’s protagonist is a that of a “highly superstitious school master” named Ichabod Crane.
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