No more battery for downtown’s green ferry
(Battery Maritime, from the back)That precious jade little music box with a copper top sitting next to the brand spanking new Staten Island Ferry terminal is…
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Snug Harbor: a port in the storm (Part 2)
November 7, 2007
(The imposing Front Five, a wall of Greek revival madness, faces the Kill van Kull and Richmond Terrace almost like a fort.)Although the sailors home that eventually became Snug Harbor was not in the location its founder Robert Richard Randall would have preferred, it…
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