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Silver Lake, Staten Island
Silver Lake is the name of both a reservoir and an adjacent neighborhood in the New York City borough of Staten Island. History Silver Lake Park, located on Staten Island's north shore, is bounded by Forest Avenue, Victory Boulevard and Clove Road. The original Silver Lake was a spring-fed body of water formed at the end of the ice age, and now makes up the south basin of the reservoir at this site. Silver Lake was once known as Fresh Pond, but maps show that by the middle of the nineteenth century, the name Silver Lake had come into use and the two were used interchangeably until about 1860. Silver Lake was named after Mark Silver, who founded the philanthropic organization today known as the Hebrew Free Burial Association. He had earlier Americanized his name from Marks Silva. The Association purchased land that became the Silver Lake Cemetery, and it was used for charitable burials. Many of the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire are buried there. Silver Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighborhoods Of Staten Island
This is a list of neighborhoods on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. * Annadale * Arden Heights * Arlington * Arrochar * Bay Terrace * Bloomfield * Brighton Heights * Bulls Head * Castleton Corners * Charleston * Chelsea * Clifton * Concord * Dongan Hills * Egbertville * Elm Park * Eltingville * Emerson Hill * Fort Wadsworth * Graniteville * Grant City * Grasmere * Great Kills * Greenridge * Grymes Hill * Hamilton Park * Heartland Village * Huguenot * Lighthouse Hill * Livingston * Manor Heights * Jefferson * Mariners Harbor * Meiers Corners * Midland Beach * New Brighton * New Dorp * New Springville * Oakwood * Old Place * Old Town * Pleasant Plains * Port Ivory * Port Richmond * Prince's Bay * Randall Manor * Richmond Valley * Richmondtown * Rosebank * Rossville * Saint George * Sandy Ground * Shore Acres * Silver Lake * South Beach * Stapleton * Stapleton Heights * Sunnyside * Todt Hill * Tompkinsville * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospect Park (Brooklyn)
Prospect Park is a urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. With an area of , Prospect Park is the second-largest public park in Brooklyn, behind Marine Park. Designated as a New York City scenic landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Prospect Park is operated by the Prospect Park Alliance and NYC Parks. First proposed in legislation passed in 1859, Prospect Park was laid out by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for the then-independent city of Brooklyn. Prospect Park opened in 1867, though it was not substantially complete until 1873. The park subsequently underwent numerous modifications and expansions to its facilities. Several additions to the park were completed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighborhoods In Staten Island
This is a list of neighborhoods on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. * Annadale * Arden Heights * Arlington * Arrochar * Bay Terrace * Bloomfield * Brighton Heights * Bulls Head * Castleton Corners * Charleston * Chelsea * Clifton * Concord * Dongan Hills * Egbertville * Elm Park * Eltingville * Emerson Hill * Fort Wadsworth * Graniteville * Grant City * Grasmere * Great Kills * Greenridge * Grymes Hill * Hamilton Park * Heartland Village * Huguenot * Lighthouse Hill * Livingston * Manor Heights * Jefferson * Mariners Harbor * Meiers Corners * Midland Beach * New Brighton * New Dorp * New Springville * Oakwood * Old Place * Old Town * Pleasant Plains * Port Ivory * Port Richmond * Prince's Bay * Randall Manor * Richmond Valley * Richmondtown * Rosebank * Rossville * Saint George * Sandy Ground * Shore Acres * Silver Lake * South Beach * Stapleton * Stapleton Heights * Sunnyside * Todt Hill * Tompkinsville * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reservoirs In New York (state)
A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, excavating, or building any number of retaining walls or levees to enclose any area to store water. Types Dammed valleys Dammed reservoirs are artificial lakes created and controlled by a dam constructed across a valley and rely on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the reservoir. These reservoirs can either be ''on-stream reservoirs'', which are located on the original streambed of the downstream river and are filled by creeks, rivers or rainwater that runs off the surrounding forested catchments, or '' off-stream reservoirs'', which receive diverted water from a nearby stream or aqueduct or pipeline water from other on-stream reservoirs. Dams are typicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Shore, Staten Island
The term North Shore is frequently applied to a series of neighborhoods within the New York City borough of Staten Island. Boundaries Generally, the North Shore is deemed to include the communities located within ZIP codes 10303, 10302 and 10310 in their entirety, along with all of the area covered by 10301 except Sunnyside, and those parts of 10304, 10305, 10314 that lie north of the Staten Island Expressway. This definition includes Mariners Harbor, Port Richmond, Westerleigh, Meiers Corners, Graniteville, Castleton Corners, West Brighton, New Brighton, St. George, Tompkinsville, Stapleton, Grymes Hill, Park Hill, Clifton, and Rosebank among the North Shore's neighborhoods. The Staten Island Expressway is considered by many to be a southern border. History The North Shore is Staten Island's oldest and most densely populated area. Archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Leni Lenape communities in the region date to as early as 2100 BC. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-Island, Staten Island
Mid-Island is frequently applied to a series of neighborhoods within the New York City borough of Staten Island. Under the definition most commonly adhered to, Mid-Island comprises all of the communities whose ZIP Code is 10314, plus Sunnyside within ZIP Code 10301, along with the western slope of Todt Hill. Mid-Island communities thus include Graniteville, Bulls Head, Willowbrook, and New Springville, Sometimes the localities situated along the Arthur Kill between the Staten Island Expressway and the Fresh Kills — Bloomfield, Chelsea and Travis — are said to be on the island's West Shore; otherwise they too would fall within Mid-Island as their ZIP Code is 10314. Like all of Staten Island except for the North Shore, farms dominated the Mid-Island region until the 1960s, when new home construction began to rise sharply. The opening of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in 1964 did much to stimulate this construction, but the effects of this phenomenon were fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunnyside, Staten Island
Sunnyside is a neighborhood in the Mid-Island region of the New York City borough of Staten Island (not to be confused with the neighborhood of the same name in the borough of Queens). History Sunnyside was originally farmland on either side of Clove Road. As farms gave way to residential housing, the Vanderbilt family built homes in the area, including two which still stand at the corner of Victory Boulevard and Clove Road. The area was once known as Clove Valley or Clovenia, and then adopted the name Sunnyside from a boarding house that was established there in 1889. Prior to the advent of cable television service, Sunnyside was noted for having the worst television reception on Staten Island. This resulted from its being hemmed in by several hills, including Grymes Hill, Emerson Hill and Castleton Hill, the latter separating Sunnyside from neighboring Castleton Corners. Sunnyside was once the home of a campus of the College of Staten Island, located at the foot of Emerso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grymes Hill
Grymes Hill is a tall hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York. It is the second highest natural point on the island and in the five boroughs of New York City. The neighborhood of the same name encompasses an area of and has a population of 8,263 people. The hill also includes parts of the Silver Lake neighborhood. The area includes part of ZIP Codes 10301 and 10304. Etymology The hill is named after Cayetana Susana "Suzette" (née Bosque) Claiborne Grymes, daughter of Felicidad Fangui and Bartolomé Bosque, and wife of prominent New Orleans lawyer and member of the First Families of Virginia, John Randolph Grymes. Her first husband was the first governor of Louisiana, William Charles Cole Claiborne. She settled on Staten Island in 1836. Her daughter Athenais Grymes married New York banker, Louis A. von Hoffman, one of the founders of the Knickerbocker Club. Geography Neighborhoods around Grymes Hill include Ward Hill to the north, Silver Lake to the wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victory Boulevard (Staten Island)
Victory Boulevard is a major thoroughfare on Staten Island, New York City, measuring approximately 8.0 miles (12.87 km). It stretches from the West Shore community of Travis to the upper East Shore communities of St. George and Tompkinsville. In the late 1940s, the portion of Victory Boulevard between Richmond Avenue and Forest Avenue was designated as New York State Route 439A (NY 439A). The section between Forest Avenue and Bay Street became part of NY 439 at the same time. Both designations were removed in . Route description The street follows a path similar to the Staten Island Expressway, an integral Staten Island traffic route. Both roadways intersect Clove Road, Slosson Avenue, Todt Hill Road, Bradley Avenue, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway, Richmond Avenue and the West Shore Expressway, as well as each other. Forest Avenue, too, is intersected by both roads; however, these two intersections are on opposite sides of the island. Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Tunnel
The Richmond Tunnel is a water supply tunnel that runs below Upper New York Bay New York Harbor is a bay that covers all of the Upper Bay. It is at the mouth of the Hudson River near the East River tidal estuary on the East Coast of the United States. New York Harbor is generally synonymous with Upper New York Bay ... between Red Hook, Brooklyn, and Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Completed in 1970, the tunnel is part of the New York City water supply system and provides Staten Island with water from Upstate New York, upstate reservoirs via a connection to New York City Water Tunnel No. 2, City Water Tunnel No. 2 in Brooklyn. The Richmond Tunnel was constructed in conjunction with water storage tanks located below Silver Lake, Staten Island, Silver Lake Park on Staten Island and a supply line that connects a distribution chamber in Tompkinsville to the underground storage tanks. The Richmond Tunnel, which is located approximately below sea level, was built to incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger ( ), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. The most severely affected areas were in the western and southern parts of Ireland—where the Irish language was dominant—hence the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as , which literally translates to "the bad life" and loosely translates to "the hard times". The worst year of the famine was 1847, which became known as "Black '47".Éamon Ó Cuív – the impact and legacy of the Great Irish Famine The population of Ireland on the eve of the famine was about 8.5 million; by 1901, it was just 4.4 million. During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million more Irish diaspora, fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20–25% between 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staten Island Advance
The ''Staten Island Advance'' is a daily newspaper published in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is the only daily newspaper published in Staten Island and the only major daily newspaper focused on covering it exclusively. ''Staten Island Advance'' covers news of local and community interest, including Staten Island politics. ''Staten Island Advance'' is the namesake and nominal flagship publication of Advance Publications. As of April 25, 2007, the newspaper's weekday circulation was down 3.9% from 2006, to 59,461, and its Sunday circulation dropped 4.6% from 2006, to 73,203. History 19th century The ''Advance'' was founded in 1886 by printer John J. Crawford and businessman James C. Kennedy and initially known as the ''Richmond County Advance''. The name was later changed to the ''Daily Advance'' and then to its current name. When ''The Advance'' was founded in 1886, there were nine competing daily newspapers in Staten Island. The circulation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
