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unusual facts about South Beach, Staten 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.

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company

Mary Celeste - Atlantic Mutual was also one of the insurers of the Mary Celeste, an American brigantine sailing out of Staten Island, New York.

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).

Brendan Sexton III

Born in Staten Island, New York, Sexton made his film debut in Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse playing the troubled bully Brandon McCarthy, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

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.

Cemetery of the Resurrection

The Cemetery of the Resurrection is a Roman Catholic cemetery on the southern shore of Staten Island, in New York City.

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.

Continuum on South Beach

The Continuum on South Beach are residential towers /skyscrapers in Miami Beach, Florida's South Beach.

Damsels in Distress

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

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.

Edgewater Village Hall and Tappen Park

Edgewater Village Hall is a historic former village hall situated within Tappen Park, a public park located in Stapleton, Staten Island, New York.

Eric Amoateng

Amoateng and Adjei were monitored by security personnel as they took delivery of the cargo and sent it to an American Self-Storage location on Staten Island.

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.

Flamingo/Lummus

Flamingo/Lummus (often called either Flamingo or Lummus) is an urban neighborhood of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States.

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.

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.

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.

Kourtney Brown

He has participated in an array of film, TV and commercial projects, including being a martial arts stuntman on the UPN television show, South Beach.

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.

Loring McMillen

Loring McMillen (March 10, 1906 – March 19, 1991) was Staten Island's official historian who preserved the works of Alice Austen and worked to restore Historic Richmond Town.

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.

Mount Prospect Park

Mount Prospect is named for its sweeping views (some no longer possible) of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and parts of New Jersey and Staten Island to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and Long Island to the east.

Obadiah Bowne

Born on Staten Island, New York, Bowne attended private schools, and was a student at Princeton College from 1838 to 1840.

P. Buckley Moss

Reared in Staten Island, New York, she is known for her portrayals of rural landscapes and life in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Philip Milledoler

He died on his birthday, 22 September 1852, while living at the home of his son-in-law, James William Beekman (1815–1877) on Staten Island.

Randolph Perkins

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

Randy Starks

On May 24, 2009, Starks was arrested by police for running into a police officer with a Freightliner truck on Ocean Drive in South Beach, Miami.

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.

Rosario Gangi

The indictment also alleged that the mobsters conspired to defraud the Staten Island Savings Bank in Staten Island, New York, and Sun Records, a famous recording label in Memphis, Tennessee.

Rose Pizzo

After her birth her family moved from Queens to New Dorp, Staten Island because her parents could no longer afford to live in the city.

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.

Sex Lives

Produced in part by Club Jenna founder Jay Grdina and Bill Fisher, CEO of Cezar Capone, the series begins with an American Idol type audition process and ultimately follows the 6 selected female participants through a variety of daily challenges and nights out in South Beach.

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.

So Gone

The song's music video, directed by Chris Robinson and shot at Miami's South Beach in April 2003, features Monica as one half of a dysfunctional relationship in which she prejudges her man to cheat on her.

South Beach, Singapore

The four conservation buildings comprises three 1930s army blocks (Blocks 1, 9 and 14) and the former NCO Club built in 1952.

The former NCO Club was originally designed as the headquarters of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes in Singapore, and had a swimming pool.

South Beach, Staten Island

This roadway, which was the only portion of the "Shore Front Drive" proposed by Robert Moses to be actually built, was later renamed Father Capodanno Boulevard, after a Roman Catholic chaplain who was killed in action during the Vietnam War, and runs from near the Verrazano Bridge to Midland Beach.

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.

Staten Island Ninja

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

Steven Gaines

Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach.

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

WQAM

In 1964, the station heavily promoted The Beatles second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show live from the Jackie Gleason Theatre in South Beach, Miami Beach.


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