Levy Playground, Port Richmond Staten Island
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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Staten Island has been
known for its patriotic residents. With the end oof the First World War, residents begged for memorials to be placed in their neighborhoods, or for sites to be dedicated in honor of the fallen Staten Island soldiers. These residents got exactly what they wanted and today, Staten Island is home to a great number of memorials and places dedicated in honor of those residents who served for our country.
In 1909, the City of New York acquired roughly half of an acre of land on the North Shore of Staten Island. After twenty-five years, the site was finally transferred over to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, who did not do much to the site for a number of years. …
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Staten Island, he lived nearby, in the neighborhood of Westerleigh.
borough, you
can find Egbert Triangle, named for one of the members of the Egbert family. The Egbert family first settled on Staten
Island in the seventeenth century. Over
the years, many of them became prominent members of Staten Island's
society. In fact, there was even a
neighborhood named after them near the center of Staten Island-Egbertville which is commonly referred to as New Dorp Heights.
uring 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.
streets of Park Avenue, Heberton Avenue, Bennett Street and Vreeland Street, as well as by Public School 20.
times the size of the acreage assigned to the Parks Department. On June 1, 2000, another addition was made to what is now known as Graniteville Swamp Park. This little sliver of land, in addition to the original portion obtained by the Parks Department, account for close to nothing when they are compared to the size of the swamp.
