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unusual facts about Oakwood, Staten Island


Moisant Aviation School

An instructor at the school, Albert Jewell disappeared on 13 October 1913 on flight from the Hempstead airfield to Oakwood, Staten Island, NY to take part in an air race; he is assumed to have come down at sea off the south shore of Long Island.


Akerly Homestead

The Poillon-Akerly-Omsted Farmhouse was a large farm and modest Dutch farmhouse on one of the higher hills overlooking Raritan Bay, and Sandy Hook in the distance on Staten Island purchased by Olmsted's father and given to Frederick Law Olmsted in 1848 to grow crops, plant trees and clear for pasture for livestock.

Allan Benny

He died in Bayonne on November 6, 1942, and was interred in Moravian Cemetery on Staten Island.

Angel Mendez

When Mendez' mother became ill and the family's economic situation worsened, his father could not raise him and his siblings, therefore 2 were sent to foster homes and 6 were placed in the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, an orphanage on Mount Loretto, Staten Island.

BaKardi Slang

Later on, he drives a Hummer through various Toronto neighbourhoods, including Regent Park, Oakwood-Vaughan, and Jane and Finch.

Barney Fife

Like Andy, who was stationed in France, Barney served in World War II, although he was a file clerk who never left the United States (he stated that "me and this other fella ran the PX library" on Staten Island).

Bossanova

The three band members lived in the Oakwood apartments, along with comic Garrett Morris and members of the band White Lion.

Bruce Ricker

Born in Staten Island, Ricker was educated at the City College of New York where he earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies.

Chaviva Hošek

In the 1987 Ontario election, Hošek sought and won a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto constituency of Oakwood, defeating Ontario New Democratic Party incumbent Tony Grande by 1,331 votes.

Clinton B. Fisk

Prohibition Park, a planned community on Staten Island, New York, named one of its major streets Clinton B. Fisk Avenue in his honor.

Crayford

They play at Oakwood stadium, on Old Road, Crayford, who they share with Kent Football United F.C..

Damsels in Distress

The movie was filmed on location in New York City on Staten Island at the Sailors' Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

David Bieber

On December 26, 2003, on the border between the Gipton and Oakwood areas of Leeds, traffic policemen Ian Broadhurst and Neil Roper saw Bieber's stolen BMW car parked at the junction of Grange Park Avenue and Dib Lane, where Bieber had just been into the adjacent post office.

Ditton Priors

A basalt axe hammer and flints have been located at Lightwood and Oakwood.

Doris Schattschneider

Schattschneider was born in Staten Island; her mother, Charlotte Lucille Ingalls Wood, taught Latin and was herself the daughter of a Staten Island school principal, and her father, Robert W. Wood, Jr., worked as a bridge engineer for New York City.

Doris J. Schattschneider (née Wood, born October 19, 1939 in Staten Island, New York, USA) is an American mathematician, a retired professor of mathematics at Moravian College.

Eugene De Rosa

One important design for a site on Hyatt Street in St. George, Staten Island, provided not just a grand new theatre but also stores and offices.

George Cromwell

George Cromwell (July 3, 1860 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York – September 17, 1934 in Staten Island, New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Henry N. Snyder

After funeral services at the Wofford College Chapel (now known as the Leonard Auditorium, in the Old Main building), Dr. Snyder was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC.

James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth

The City of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, which sits on the waterfront facing Staten Island, New York, and which was once a port city in its own right, is named in his honor — a statue of Lord Perth stands in front of City Hall (the "Amboy" comes from an Algonquian word meaning "valley").

James McBratney

James McBratney (November 17, 1941, New York City, New York – May 22, 1973, Staten Island, New York) was an Irish American gangster, believed to have been involved in the 1972 kidnappings of Emanuel "Manny" Gambino (nephew of Carlo Gambino) and Lucchese crime family caporegime Francesco Manzo and Gambino crime family mafioso Vincent D'Amore.

James Sansom Carpenter House

Artist Leon Kroll and his wife visited Des Moines and stayed with the Carpenter's at Oakwood.

John Cleve Green

His town house was in Washington Square in New York City and his large country house with much land at New Brighton on Staten Island.

Joseph Johnston Muir

He served in succession: the Baptist church in Oxford, New Jersey; the East Marion Baptist Church on Long Island; First Baptist Church of Ticonderoga, New York; McDougal Street Baptist Church, New York City; the Park Baptist Church in Port Richmond, New York on Staten Island; North Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia; the E Street or Third Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and the Temple Baptist Church also in Washington.

Josh Colle

He was instrumental in petitioning Metrolinx to include a station at Oakwood Avenue in their final plans for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

Kettering-Oakwood Times

The Kettering-Oakwood Times was a weekly suburban newspaper last owned by Civitas Media of Davidson, North Carolina.

Lake Wawasee

Known geographic place names around Wawasee: Black's Point, Black Stump Point, Jones Landing, Willow Grove, Pickwick Park, Kale Island, Oakwood, Lakeview-South Park, Ogden's Island, Sand Point, Johnson's Bay, Buttermilk Bay, Vawter Park, Ideal Beach, Waveland Beach, Conkling Hill, Morrison's Island, and Nattie Crow Beach.

Lawrence Manor

At the federal and provincial level the area is within the riding of Eglinton—Lawrence (formerly in the federal riding of Eglinton and provincially within Oakwood).

Lois Lowry

Lowry and her family briefly lived in Carlisle again in 1950 before moving to Fort Jay at Governors Island, New York, where Lowry attended Curtis High School on Staten Island.

Molly Burnett

She has participated in school plays and musicals during her upbringing in Colorado, and attended Wagner College on Staten Island in New York City for two years.

Oakwood State Bank

The Oakwood State Bank, is a small bank with a single branch in Oakwood, Texas formerly operated by Roddy R. Wiley, Jr. (born c. 1923 - 6 August 2010)

Oakwood–Vaughan

Oakwood–Vaughan is a multicultural neighbourhood in the York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Oakwood, Texas

Oakwood (single), a CD release of a song written by The Redding Brothers about the town of Oakwood, Texas, where their grandfather, Billy Jack Redding, grew up.

Randolph Perkins

He was interred in Fairview Cemetery, West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York.

Robert W. McCollum

Back at Yale, McCollum and Dr. Saul Krugman performed studies at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York, where they found that a form of hepatitis was spread through blood transfusions and that transmission of serum hepatitis (now known as hepatitis B) could be blocked using gamma globulin.

Ronald Brise

Brisé graduated from Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, with degrees in Biology and Biology Education.

Rossville points

They were named by archaeologist Alanson Skinner after the Rossville section of Staten Island, New York where they were found in the vicinity of the old U.S. Post Office building.

Seth C. Moffatt

Seth Moffatt was a resident of Northport and is interred at Oakwood Cemetery of Traverse City.

Sherri L. Smith

She was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent most of her childhood in Staten Island.

Silver Mount Cemetery

Silver Mount Cemetery is located at 918 Victory Boulevard on Staten Island, New York, United States.

Specialized High Schools Admissions Test

In recent years, students who reside in Manhattan take it at Stuyvesant High School, in the Bronx at Bronx High School of Science, in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Technical High School, in Queens at Long Island City High School or John Adams High School, and in Staten Island at Staten Island Technical High School.

St Thomas's Church, Oakwood

St Thomas's is a modern Anglican church established in the 1930s as the suburb of Oakwood grew with the extension of the Piccadilly underground line to Cockfosters.

Staten Island Ninja

His target is mainly wealthier homes on Staten Island, particularly in the more affluent neighborhood of Todt Hill.

Staten Island Vipers

The Vipers initially struggled to find a ground at which to play, debuting first at Monsignor Farrell High School in Oakwood before being forced out by community opposition.

Tabby concrete

The British tradition began later (some time close to, but earlier than, 1700, upon introduction of the techniques from Spanish Florida) than the Spanish (1580), and spread far more widely as a building material, reaching at least as far north as Staten Island, New York, where it can be found in the still-standing Abraham Manee House, erected around 1670.

The Crimson Beech

The Crimson Beech (also known as the Cass House) is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright located in the Lighthouse Hill neighborhood of the New York City borough of Staten Island.

The Gatekeepers

:An ambitious writer from Staten Island; attends Wesleyan University; later attends Oxford University; and creates a series of best-selling college guidebooks, Students' Guide to Colleges, from Penguin Books, as well as Unigo -- a free online college resource guide

Venice 13

Famous movie stars such as actresses Julia Roberts and Anjelica Huston, and actor Nicolas Cage have taken residency in or around the Oakwood area.

The affiliate, with plenty of animosity for the mostly Caucasian professional newcomers, stated that new home owners in the area at sometimes fail to even notice Oakwood as a gang neighborhood.

Wayne Farms

The Dutch Quality House brand was created in 1978, and acquired by the company in 1985 through the purchase of a processing plant in Oakwood, Georgia.


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