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            <author>anthony@realestatesiny.com (Anthony Licciardello)</author>
            <title>The Staten Island Expressway is Staten Island's main artery.</title>
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In April of 1957, plans were approved for a freeway which would be comprised of eight express lanes and four service lanes, running west and east through Staten Island. Construction began in 1959 on what would be known as the Clove Lakes Expressway.  On January 30, 1964, the first section opened from the Goethals Bridge to Victory Boulevard. Ten months later, on November 19, the rest of the expressway had been completed--just a few days before the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge first opened.


Today, the Staten Island Expressway is undergoing many changes. The bus lanes that were created in 1998 began to be used as high-occupancy vehicles in 2008. Late last year, it was finalized that these lanes would be extended. Additionally, the removal of certain overpasses will occur. These overpasses were constructed when the expressway was first built; however, they were erected to connect to the Richmond Parkway, which was never completed in select areas.


When you’re coming from the Goethals Bridge driving eastbound toward the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge you will notice the speed limit of the Staten Island Expressway is 50 miles per hour. The first exit you will approach is Exit 4: Forest Avenue. As soon as you get off the exit, you will be on Gulf Avenue, where you can make an immediate left turn onto Forest Avenue.


The next exit is Exit 5: West Shore Expressway. Obviously, this ramp brings you to the West Shore Expressway, where you have two options to which you can drive. The first would be to take the first exit to the Outerbridge Crossing. The second would be to continue for a bit until you reach the loops which bring you onto the Korean War Veterans Parkway. This will take you all the way down to Richmond Avenue, by the Staten Island Mall.


Exit 7: Richmond Avenue is next. This exit actually lets you off at Fahy Avenue, where you would have to make the first left turn onto Lamberts Lane.  Continuing down a few blocks, you will reach the stretch of Richmond Avenue right in between the neighborhoods of Graniteville and Bulls Head.


After passing the Richmond Avenue exit, you will come to Exit 8: Victory Boulevard. If you had taken Exit 7 and continued down Lamberts Lane until it turned into Christopher Lane, you would soon reach Victory Boulevard. There is a junction here where the drivers of Exit 7 and Exit 8 would meet. This leaves you right by the College of Staten Island.





Exit 9: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway is next, bringing you along Route 440. This will take you onto the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway, where you can continue all the way down to the less-frequently used Bayonne Bridge, which brings you into Bayonne, New Jersey.  


Next you have Exit 11: Bradley Avenue. This exit actually leaves you off at the service road, South Gannon Avenue. From here, you can make either a left turn or a right turn at the next traffic signal, which is Bradley Avenue.  Making a left would take you toward Victory Boulevard, where a Business Improvement District is planned. Making a right would take you toward Seaview Hospital.


Past Exit 11, you will find a new lane that has been given to the expressway. This lane is used for buses, but during rush hour, it is used for high-occupancy vehicles.  The next exit is Exit 12: Todt Hill Road/Slosson Avenue.  This exit actually leaves you off at Lortel Avenue, where Slosson Avenue would be your next left or right turn.  Todt Hill Road is actually just a bit before where the exit leaves you off.  Right beside the ramp for this exit is the popular Sports Park, which has Go Karts, Batting Cages, and more.


The next exit is Exit 13: Clove Road/Richmond Road/Hylan Boulevard.  This exit lets you off on Milford Drive, which turns into Clove Road once you pass the overpass ahead.  The next street after the overpass is Richmond Road.  If you continue down Clove Road or use the junction which brings you to Narrows Road South, you will eventually get to the end of Hylan Boulevard.


Exit 15: Lily Pond Avenue/South Beach/Bay Street is next, bringing you to Lily Pond Avenue. To get to Bay Street from this exit, all you have to do is make a left turn once you reach Lily Pond Avenue and continue down a couple of blocks until you come to the end of the street. The intersecting street here will be Bay Street, which turns into New York Avenue if you were to turn right.


Exit 15 is the last exit on the Staten Island Expressway when you are traveling eastbound. Once you pass this exit, you will be taken to the toll road of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, where you will be driving into Brooklyn, New York. As of this writing, the toll for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is thirteen dollars. If you have an E-Z Pass, however, the price of the toll is dropped to $9.60.


Coming from the other direction, there are two exits as soon as you get off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The first is Exit 15: Lily Pond Avenue/Father Capodanno Boulevard. The ramp for this exit takes you into a loop which brings you to Lily Pond Avenue. Eventually, this street turns into Father Capodanno Boulevard, which you will find is parallel to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach.


The second exit here is Exit 14: Narrows Road/Hylan Boulevard. This is actually a three-lane exit which changes once you get past the first intersection street, Fingerboard Road. From here, the exit turns into Narrows Road North, the service road which runs parallel to the Staten Island Expressway in this direction.


The next exit going westbound is Exit 13: Richmond Road/Clove Road. This exit takes you down Narrows Road North. The second major intersecting street here is Richmond Road.  As you continue further down, past Wagner College, the next street you come to will be Clove Road. 


Exit 12: Slosson Avenue/Todt Hill Road is next. As with traveling in the eastbound direction, another lane is given to the expressway starting here.  This, too, is used for buses and high-occupancy vehicles. Driving down the ramp of Exit 12, the first street you come to will be Slosson Avenue.  The second street after this is Todt Hill Road, onto which you can only make a right turn, as it is the end of the street.


Following Exit 12 is Exit 11: Bradley Avenue. The ramp will take you to North Gannon Avenue, the next street which runs parallel to the Staten Island Expressway.  Once you get off the ramp to North Gannon Avenue, the first intersecting street you come to will be Bradley Avenue.


Next, you have Exit 10: Victory Boulevard. The ramp for this exit takes you to North Gannon Avenue, where the first street you come to will be Willowbrook Road. After Willowbrook Road, you will reach the intersecting Victory Boulevard, right by Gaeta Park.


Exit 9: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway is next, bringing you to Route 440. Just like Exit 9 going in the eastbound direction, this exit takes you to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway. By driving along this expressway, you will eventually reach the Bayonne Bridge.


Once again, Exit 7 going westbound is the same as when you are traveling eastbound, as they both lead you to the section of Richmond Avenue by the neighborhoods of Graniteville and Bulls Head. When traveling westbound, it is much faster to get to Richmond Avenue, as the ramp will take you in a loop which ends with a traffic light on Richmond Avenue.


Passing this exit, you will reach Exit 6: South Avenue. The ramp for this exit brings you to Goethals Road North. After you pass the Staten Island School of Civic Leadership and a few more streets to your right, you will come to the intersecting South Avenue, right by Staten Island Industrial Park.


The next exit is once again the same as when you are traveling in the eastbound direction. This is Exit 5: West Shore Expressway.  You can either travel all the way down until you come to a loop bringing you east along the Korean War Veterans Parkway, or you can take Exit 1 here to the Outerbridge Crossing.


The last exit of the Staten Island Expressway going westbound is Exit 3: Western Avenue. The ramp for this exit takes you down Goethals Road North.  Continuing down, the first street you will come to will be Western Avenue, which is right by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company.


Once you pass the next exit and continue on down I-278, you will be led to the Goethals Bridge, which will take you into Elizabeth, New Jersey.  The toll is not paid when traveling into New Jersey. If you are traveling into Staten Island, however, the current price would be twelve dollars. The toll changes to $9.50 if you use an E-Z Pass during peak hours and $7.50 if you use an E-Z Pass during off-peak hours. Tolls are reflect rates as of 5/17/2012.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:18:54 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>vlorraine2002@msn.com (Lorraine Vaughan)</author>
            <title>Food Options in the Sunset Hill area of Staten Island</title>
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One of the pleasures of ife is eating good, flavorful and well prepared food. Whether it be homemade and shopping for ingredients, prepared meals, or eating out, the Sunset Hill area has an unbelievalbe number of possibilities and options to satisfy anyone's tastes.


Don't have the time to plan, shop, and prepare a meal? Coming home late from work? Kids have a soccer game? Not to worry. The restaurant options are many and  range from fast food to various ethnic speclties, also spanning a large range in prices.  Want Italian? The options along the "Strip" (Forest Avenue) include such standbys as pizza and other straight forward italian specialities such as paninis, salads, and a variety of pasta dishes at Cafe Milano, Panini Grill to name a couple.  Want a more extensive menu and maybe pick up some delicious gelati or pastry speciaties for dessert, go to Pasticcheria Bruno. Chinese? It's well prepared and flavorful at Green Gardens. Steaks? The newest additions in the area include Prhyme and Broadway Mike's. Good homestye, stick to the ribs options? Go no further than Jody's. A great burger? Duffy's is your place.  There is even a homey place to get a German meal not far away at Nurnberger Bierhaus on Castleton Avenue. Should you want a friendly lunch with old acquaintances or an affair catered, the venerable LeGreci's is there as well.


Planning and making your own homemade meals is made easier by the selections available at our local supermarket, Key Foods, or specialty stores such as Pastosa and Morelli Bakery for Italian specialities and baked goods. Wines or spirits to accompany the meal can be found at Jean's Fine Wines and Spirits, where the selection is extensive and the service knowledgeable regarding your choices to accompany that special meal.


Whatever your pleasure in the gastronomic realm, The Sunset Hill area has it. The local establishments will know you by name and offer great food in pleasant surroundings.
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            <title>Tottenville Pool: A man made oasis provided by New York City</title>
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You may recall the reasoning behind the naming of the neighborhood Tottenville, if you have read the historical information we have provided you with on our website. The neighborhood was given its name because of a post office which stood in the area.  In 1861, it was given the name Tottenville Post Office, after the first postmaster, John Totten. There were two factors in giving the neighborhood the name of Tottenville.  First of all, the post office served the neighborhood. Second of all, the Totten family had grown to be quite prominent on Staten Island.


The Totten family was not the only well-known family on Staten Island. In fact, during the end of the seventeenth century, many people came to this Island from France and came to be recognized figures among Staten Islanders.  The French immigrants came to America because they were fleeing their country. This was due to the fact that King Henry IV had revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and put the Edict of Fontainbleau in place. The first edict had granted French Protestants civil rights, while the second revoked them and basically stated that if you had any religious beliefs that were not shared with those of the king, you would be killed.  As you can imagine, a number of these French Huguenots traveled elsewhere—many to Staten Island.


One of these French Huguenots was Andre Joline, who came to Staten Island in 1694.  About a century later, his descendants bought much land in the neighborhood of Tottenville.  One of these descendants had a large tract of land between Sprague Avenue and Central Avenue, from about Amboy Road, all the way down to the water.  A later descendent, William Manee Joline, married Ann Totten, who was a direct descendent of the original immigrant who came to Long Island, New York from Tottenham, London, England, and whose great-great- grandson settled on Staten Island.


The land on which this family resided for many years was eventually cut up and sold in smaller parcels as new housing began to be erected.  They are remembered, however, in the name of the eastern street which bordered their property. This was Central Avenue, whose name was changed to Joline Avenue.


By the end of the 1960s, construction began on section of the original land. This parcel of land was at the southwestern corner of the intersection of Hylan Boulevard and Joline Avenue.  In the early years of the next decade, the New York City Board of Estimate assigned this land to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, so that it could be operated as a park.  Today, the park is officially known as Tottenville Pool. Residents who live in the area, however, sometimes refer to it as Joline Pool.


The construction that was done in the late 1960s was on two pools which are still located at the site. The two pools are located outdoors and are not open during the winter months.  The first pool, which is an Intermediate Pool, is 75 feet by 60 feet.  The second pool is a Wading Pool.  This pool is 24 feet by 24 feet.  Both pools are open between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.  They are closed between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., however, so that they can be cleaned.  In 1993, more construction occurred at this site.  This project added a playground to the park, which was on a new parcel of land adjacent to the site.  Today, the park is roughly two acres in size.  During the months that the pool area is open, swimming programs are offered. The playground portion of the park is open year-round.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 07:34:33 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>anthony@realestatesiny.com (Anthony Licciardello)</author>
            <title>Arbutus Woods: Part of Staten Island's vast bluebelt system</title>
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Arbutus Woods Park is approximately two and a half acres of woodlands in the neighborhood of Huguenot. It is located between Arbutus Avenue and Stecher Street, with the entrance to the park being on Stecher Street. Arbutus Woods Park is named after the trailing arbutus plant, which used to grow all over Staten Island, especially in this area, prior to 1940. It is now extinct due to the fact that many local residents used the plant as a salad vegetable. The trailing arbutus plant grows low to the ground; it has clusters of small pink/white flowers, trailing woody stems, and oval leaves that are smooth on top and slightly hairy on the bottom.


The park is part of the Arbutus Creek watershed. This watershed was given to the Department of Parks and Recreation in 1994 by the Department of Real Property. The Arbutus Creek watershed is park of Staten Island’s bluebelt system and helps prevent flooding around the park and surrounding community. It receives all the runoff storm water and creates a spring-like pond. During the summer these ponds dry up to let the sweet pepperbush and swamp loosestrife grow.


The park was originally planned to be used as a ball field, but due to the water that shifts here, it was not determined by engineers to be suitable place. Even though the park is unusable as a ball field or playground, it still has trails through it for a nice relaxing walk. These trails were first created by the Works Progress Administration to be used as sidewalks, but they were never completed either. The park is home to a variety of plants and wildlife, especially the whip-poor-will bird. The park sits just north of Arbutus Lake and the Nicolosi Drive luxury estates.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 06:54:19 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>anthony@realestatesiny.com (Anthony Licciardello)</author>
            <title>Long Pond Park on Staten Island's South Shore.</title>
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Long Pond Park is one of the lesser-known parks on Staten Island in Richmond Valley. You can probably get away with saying that it is hidden in plain sight. Long Pond Park is quite large, being about one hundred acres in size, but since this undeveloped land does not have any arresting entrances, most people do not even know it’s designated as parkland.  It has in fact been in possession of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation since the beginning of the twenty-first century. For the most part, Long Pond Park is bounded by the streets of Amboy Road to the north, Hylan Boulevard to the south, Page Avenue to the west, and Richard Avenue to the east. However, there a number of streets interspersed along Page Avenue, which basically jut into the park.


The entirety of Long Pond Park has been designated as a Forever Wild Nature Preserve by the Natural Resources Group, who conserves fifty-one of these sites in New York City—twenty-four of which are located on Staten Island. The purpose of the Forever Wild designation is to protect rare and endangered organisms within an ecosystem. In Long Pond Park, you will find many different habitats, including forested areas, grasslands, and wetlands. Between August and October, you will actually see a number of migratory birds visiting the park. In addition to these, there are some yearly creatures who inhabit the park.


Within Long Pond Park, you will find the 1 ½ mile trail known as Long Pond Trail. The trail begins by Richard Avenue and Hylan Boulevard. As you begin hiking along the trail, you will pass two ponds: Buegler Pond and Camden Pond. Past these ponds, you will reach Pam’s Pond, followed by Pratt’s Pond. Finally, you will reach Long Pond, which is quite a long pond, indeed, taking up roughly five acres. Along this same trail, you will also pass by two swamps: Cleaves Swamp and Thoreau Swamp. In addition to these ponds and swamps, there are several smaller bodies of water throughout the park, such as the small kettle ponds past Pam’s Pond.


Along Long Pond Trail and within the rest of the park, you can find a wide variety of plant life inhabiting Long Pond Park. The ferns, herbs, shrubs, trees, vines, are a great sight for nature enthusiasts and plain visitors alike. The ferns located within the park include the bracken fern, the hay-scented fern, and the interrupted fern.  There are a great number of herbs, as well, including the Asiatic dayflower, the bastard toadflax, dogbane, garlic mustard, orange jewelweed, trumpetweed, and white wood aster. Some of the shrubs you can find include the arrowwood viburnum shrub, the black raspberry shrub, the highland and lowbush blueberry shrubs, the maple-leaf viburnum shrub, and the winged sumac shrub. Some of the more prominent trees in the park include black locust trees, mockernut trees, red oak trees, silk trees, sweetgum trees, and tulip trees. These are only a few of the different types of trees found within the park, though. There are a few lovely types of vines within Long Pond Park, including the Asiatic bittersweet, the bittersweet nightshade, and the wisteria.  Not surprisingly, there are a few different types of grass within Long Pond Park, as well.  The types of grass include deer tongue grass, purple top grass, and switchgrass.  
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            <author>anthony@realestatesiny.com (Anthony Licciardello)</author>
            <title>Faber Park and Pool on Staten Island's North Shore</title>
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If you ever took notice of the brand of pencils you used to use in school, there’s a good chance you saw the name Faber on at least one of them. These types of pencils had become quite popular in the nineteenth century. Their origin, however, began during the prior century. In 1761, German cabinet maker Kasper Faber began to manufacture his own brand of pencil in Stein, a town located near Nuremberg, Bavaria. After Kasper Faber’s death in 1784, his son, Anton, took over the company. At this time, he changed the company’s name to the A.W. Faber Company.  Soon after, the company’s name came to be quite prominent.


You’re probably wondering why you’re being given the history of pencils, but quite frankly, they played a significant role in the history of one of our borough’s parks.  You see, Anton Wilhelm Faber’s grandson, Eberhard Faber had been taught by his father, Georg Leonhard Faber, to become a lawyer. He soon came to realize, however, that he had no interest in that line of work. In 1849, he traveled to New York City, where you entered the family business and opened a branch of the A.W. Faber Company. By February 5, 1857, he was legally naturalized. Three years later, he constructed a factory which manufactured the lead pencils. This building, which was located in Manhattan, was the first manufactory of its kind in the United States.


I bet now you’re wondering why we’re talking about Manhattan, while we told you that the history has to do with Staten Island. The fact of the matter is that Eberhard Faber originally made his home on Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Port Richmond. This is where he spent his last days, just before passing away on March 2, 1879. This man was not significant based solely on the fact that he created the first American lead pencil manufactory; he had figured out a way to produce pencils with a higher quality and at a faster rate. This enabled the business to grow immensely. Wealthy though he was, the property on which his home sat was less than four and a half acres in size.  Nonetheless, the site of Eberhard Faber’s home is quite popular today.


In 1906, the City of New York purchased the site. It was later transferred over to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, in 1928. After some time, the site was finally opened on July 15, 1932 as the Faber Park and Pool. It is located to the northwest of the intersection of North Street and Richmond Terrace, right below the Kill Van Kull. Today, the park includes a basketball court and a playground, in addition to the pool, which is probably obvious from the park’s name. The pool is 140 feet by 76 feet.  It is open during the day from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., and again from 4 p.m. until 7p.m. The pool is closed for an hour in between for cleaning of the pool.


Faber Park and Pool, along with many other parks in New York City, participates in a monthly event known as the BeFitNYC Free First Monday. The event allows visitors to utilize the Recreation Centers in selected parks for free during the first Monday of each month. From Monday until Friday, the Recreation Facility is open from 11 a.m. until 8:30 p.m.  On Saturdays, it is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.  During the remaining days of the month, many other programs and events occur here, such as after school programs to teach children how to swim.
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            <author>anthony@realestatesiny.com (Anthony Licciardello)</author>
            <title>Woodhull Park in Huguenot is one of Staten Island's more recent additions.</title>
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About Woodhull Park, Staten Island


In March of 2001, Staten Island lost one of its most recognized activists: Lorraine Sorge.  Lorraine Sorge was greatly involved in the borough. She had been known for speaking her mind on topics such as the closing of the South Shore’s Staten Island University Hospital, the construction of a jail on Staten Island, and toll hikes on Staten Island’s bridges. In each case, she was very much against each proposal.  At the time of her death, Lorraine Sorge was president of the Staten Island Taxpayer’s Association, a non-profit organization made up of Staten Islanders of all communities who are dedicated to improving the whole of the Island.


Aside from being the president of the Staten Island Taxpayer’s Association, Lorraine Sorge had been co-chairwoman of the Staten Island Recreation Congress, which was established in an attempt to populate the Island with more recreational facilities.  One year prior to her death, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation acquired five acres of land from the New York State Department of Transportation.  Lorraine Sorge had tried her best to have a park established on the site, but she would not live long enough for it to be anything but a proposal.


By the middle of 2001, a few months after Lorraine Sorge’s death, plans had been made to establish a specific type of park on the site, which is rare to see on Staten Island.  This park, which would only take up about one-and-a-half acres of land, would cater to young children and senior citizens alike, an idea favored by Lorraine Sorge, herself.  By 2005, Woodhull Senior Park opened near Bloomingdale Park.  Much of the park’s history is unknown, such as the naming of the park, which is just named after the street in borders. However, there have been rumors that have been going on since the planning staging that the park would be named in honor of Lorraine Sorge.  Whether or not the park was even dedicated in honor of Lorraine Sorge is unknown, but to this day, it still retains its original name of Woodhull Senior Park.


The original acreage transferred to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation was behind the current houses along Vernon Ave., between Drumgoole Road East, Marcy Avenue, and Amboy Road.  The parcel that was converted into Woodhull Senior Park is at the corner of Drumgoole Road East and Woodhull Avenue, Marcy Avenue’s alternate alias.  This section is closest to the Korean War Veteran’s Parkway, which is just north of the park.


 

 

 


There are three separate entrances to Woodhull Senior Park. The main entrance is at the corner of Drumgoole Road East and Woodhull Avenue. After passing a bench along the pathway, you will reach the main facilities of the park. First, you will come across a swing set, which is adjacent to a multi-colored spray showers.  Past these is the jungle gym.  Along the perimeter between the swing set and the jungle gym are benches.


At an almost equivalent distance from either side of the main entrance, you have the second and third entrances. The entrance along Woodhull Avenue has a long path with benches which leads to the center of the park.  The last entrance is further down on Drumgoole Road East. As you walk down the few steps, you will reach a pavilion providing shade along with the trees which guard the only side of the park not bordered by a street.  All of the facilities within the park are accessible from each of the entrances.
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            <title>Sports Park: Manor Heights, Staten Island</title>
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In 1867, Czechoslovakian Moritz Glauber immigrated to New York. After settling in Colorado and opening his own department store, he removed to Tennessee with his new wife, Elsa.  By 1910, the couple was living on Staten Island, where they owned a 35-acre estate.  In 1944, while living alone in New York City, Moritz Glauber passed away.  On January 17, 1958, the estate was acquired by the City of New York, who transferred the site to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Soon afterward, a little less than five acres were transformed into a park.


For about three decades, the park of which we speak was comprised of nothing more than vegetation.  This all changed on February 26 of 1991, when the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation allowed the Eagle Recreation Management company to erect recreational facilities on the site. The Eagle Recreation Management company constructed batting cages, a miniature golf course, a snack bar, and a pro shop on the site. They operated these facilities for ten years, as per their agreement with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.


In 1996, New York City Parks Department Commissioner Henry J. Stern was giving names to many parks.  He named this site Sports Park. Three years later, on April 26, a contract was signed with Staten Island Hockey. During their operation of the park, they made many improvements to the facilities already existing on the site, such as the installation of new equipment for the batting cages.  In addition to the improvements, Staten Island Hockey constructed a roller-hockey rink on the site.


Sports Park is located just below the Staten Island expressway, to the west of Todt Hill. It is bordered to the west by Manor Road and to the south by Schmidts Lane. Its eastern boundary is the Staten Island Chinese Christian Church. The name Sports Park has been lost among the local residents of Staten Island, although the facilities are all still there. In fact, Sports Park is one of the most popular places for children on Staten Island, however small it may seem. The site is better known as Staten Island Go Karts, as that is the newest attraction that has been added to the park.


 

 

 


Sports Park is open during the spring and summer seasons. Though the hours change often, they are usually open from noon until 10 p.m. during the weekdays and from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. It costs six dollars per person to play the eighteen holes on the rather large miniature golf course. The Go-Kart track has twelve go-karts which seat one person and six which seat two people. It costs six dollars for drivers and three dollars for passengers.  The nine batting cages offer baseball and softball pitching at a cost of $2.50 for eighteen pitches.


As for the hockey rink, on most days you will find leagues playing. There are three different age groups which play as leagues. The youth leagues consist of children from nine to thirteen years old, and teenagers from fourteen to eighteen years old.  To enter the adult league, you must be at least seventeen years old. While entering one of the leagues may be costly, you can also try open hockey, which costs fifteen dollars.  Open hockey takes place from 7:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. on Wednesdays.  Like the adult league, participants must be at least seventeen years old to play.
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            <title>Bayview Terrace Park: Southeast Annadale, Staten Island</title>
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Bayview Terrace Park is located in the neighborhood of Annadale. It is made up of about two acres of land between Holdridge Avenue and Bennett Place, below Bayview Terrace and next to the ocean. There used to be a nice beach located next to the park that has submerged under water since the late 1950s. Now the park overlooks what is left of the beach with a 17-foot drop down to it.


Bayview Terrace Park is a garden area created by the local gardeners of the area. Before the local gardeners came along to fix it up, the land used to be a city-owned lot filled with trash. In 1991, the local gardeners leased the land from the City to start cleaning it up. With rising rent prices, they went to Community Board 3 to get their help to transfer the lot to the Department of Parks and Recreation. Finally, with the support of Community Board 3, the Greenbelt Conservancy, The Protectors of Pine Oak Woods, and Green Thumb, the lot got transferred in January of 1997.


The local gardeners turned the trash-filled lot into a beautiful garden that holds a clay-bottom pond, a butterfly garden, vegetable beds, rabbit hutches, birdhouses, and a natural area. This park was created to be a natural habitat to attract animal and insect species, as well as a place for the community to relax in. The gardeners use a method of natural cultivation to maintain the garden and a healthy ecosystem. The butterfly garden holds herbs--such as basil, lavender, and rosemary--to attract more than 30 species of butterflies. The natural area is an empty space in the garden that is left alone to attract the insects and animals that help pollinate the plants. This is also one of the two Purple Martin colonies on Staten Island--the other being in Lemon Creek Park.
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            <title>21 Ovis Place, Staten Island NY 10306– RealEstateSINY.com</title>
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On 11/3/2004, a one-family home at 21 Ovis Place was publicly recorded as sold for $355,000. This residence is located on block 5028 and lot 14, which is in the neighborhood of Great Kills, Staten Island, 10306. It was constructed in 1965 on 2400 square feet of land and has a living space of 1232 square feet.


Source: New York City Department of Finance home sale data. Property tax assessments in New York City are determined by estimated home values based on reported comparable area home and real estate sales.


If you have questions regarding this house or property, or you need to get a current home value market analysis, you can contact our Staten Island industry leading Realtors at (718) 668-0423.


Neighboring houses and brief specs on Ovis Place:


16 Ovis PlaceThere was a publicly recorded home sale of 16 Ovis Place for $395,000 on 12/1/2004.•Single Family Residence•Year Built: 1975•Approximately 1,232 Sq Ft•Lot size: 2,499.48 Sq Ft


17 Ovis PlaceThere was a publicly recorded home sale of 17 Ovis Place for $410,000 on 1/16/2007.•Single Family Residence•Year Built: 1965•Approximately 1,232 Sq Ft•Lot size: 2,400 Sq Ft


18 Ovis PlaceThere was a publicly recorded home sale of 18 Ovis Place for $430,000 on 5/4/2007.•Single Family Residence•Year Built: 1975•Approximately 1,232 Sq Ft•Lot size: 2,499.48 Sq Ft


22 Ovis PlaceThere was a publicly recorded home sale of 22 Ovis Place for $287,000 on 12/4/2002.•Single Family Residence•Year Built: 1975•Approximately 1,232 Sq Ft•Lot size: 2,475.9 Sq Ft


23 Ovis PlaceThere was a publicly recorded home sale of 23 Ovis Place for $155,000 on 5/11/1998.•Single Family Residence•Year Built: 1965•Approximately 1,232 Sq Ft•Lot size: 2,400 Sq Ft


24 Ovis PlaceThere was a publicly recorded home sale of 24 Ovis Place for $160,000 on 5/27/1994.•Single Family Residence•Year Built: 1975•Approximately 1,232 Sq Ft•Lot size: 2,475.9 Sq Ft


The homes and associated property listed on Ovis Place, Staten Island are reported as public information by the City of New York's Department of Finance. The homes in this summary may or may not be those listed, marketed and sold by licensed real estate brokers, real estate agents or their associates.
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