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unusual facts about Stapleton, Staten Island


Ronell Wilson

Prosecutors alleged Wilson was the leader of a violent drug gang called the Stapleton Crew (witnesses at the trial denied using that label) that originated in the Stapleton housing projects of 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).

Baron Bardolf

His co-heirs were his two great-nephews, descended from his only sister Joan (died 5 August 1466) by her first husband John Lovel, 8th Baron Lovel: Sir Brian Stapleton (died 2 April 1550), son of Sir Brian Stapleton by his wife Joan, elder daughter of Joan Lady Lovel; and Sir John Norreys (died 1564), son of Sir Edward Norreys by his wife Frideswide, younger daughter of Joan Lady Lovel.

Bob Stapleton

After the Operación Puerto scandal touched big names of the men's team such as Jan Ullrich and Óscar Sevilla, and following disputes among riders and managing staff, there were major changes in both the team's roster and management, and Stapleton was appointed team manager.

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.

Chris Stapleton

As a member of The SteelDrivers, Stapleton earned three Grammy Award nominations including "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" for the song "Where Rainbows Never Die" and "Best Bluegrass Album," and won an International Bluegrass Music Association Award for "Emerging Artist of the Year." He has won six ASCAP Awards and has contributed to the soundtracks of several feature films including "Cars 2" and "Valentine’s Day."

Clay Stapleton

On September 9, 2006 Stapleton was inducted into the Iowa State Athletics Hall of Fame with fellow alumni Beth Bader, Jon Brown, John Crawford, Barry Hill, Russ Hoffman, Jerry McNertney, Hugo Otopalik, Keith Sims, and Winnifred Tilden.

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.

Committee for a Nuclear Free Island

However, with a former Staten Island Borough President, Robert Connor, lobbying within the Defense Department, and support from the local daily newspaper, the Staten Island Advance, as well as most elected officials, a site on Staten Island's north shore in the community of Stapleton was selected.

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.

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.

Frank Stapleton

Stapleton made his international debut under then player-manager Johnny Giles in a friendly against Turkey in Ankara in 1976 at 20 years of age.

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.

Hannah More

Born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol, Hannah More was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More, a schoolmaster originally from Harleston, Norfolk.

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.

Kevin Figes

Other highlights were playing with John Critchinson, the big bands of Dave Stapleton and Andy Hague and performing a great new piece by Keith Tippett in the Colston Hall, Bristol.

Larry Hibbitt

Hibbitt has written with Dinosaur Pile-Up, Katie Sutherland, Hill Valley High, Norma Jean Martine, Sophie Madeleine, Nothing But Thieves, Cortes, RosieMay and Alex Davies, and his production/mixing credits include Million Dead, The Computers, Hundred Reasons, Marmozets, Spirits, Scholars, My Awesome Compilation, Rumble In Rhodos, Capdown, Hill Valley High, Stapleton and Max Raptor.

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.

Miles Stapleton

Sir Miles Stapleton married firstly Elizabeth Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knight of the Garter, of Felbrigg, Norfolk by Margaret, perhaps of Teschen, a kinswoman and lady in waiting to English queen Anne of Bohemia.

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.

Phyllis and Flora

That version was translated under the byline of "R.S. Esquire" who, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, was most likely Richard Stapleton, a friend of Chapman.

Priscilla Morrill

Jean Stapleton stated in an interview for the Archive of American Television, Morrill was the stand-in for her in the ninth season episode of All in the Family "A Girl Like Edith" where Stapleton had a dual role.

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.

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.

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.

Stapleton, Herefordshire

The parish borders on several other parishes, including Willey, Kinsham and Presteigne.

Stapleton, Shropshire

The church organ is among the top six hundred in the country and there is a small tapestry piece in the nave said to have been worked by Mary, Queen of Scots.

Staten Island Ninja

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

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

The Gingerbread Lady

Directed by Robert Moore the cast featured, in addition to Maureen Stapleton, Betsy von Furstenberg (Toby Landau) Michael Lombard, (Jimmy Perry) and Charles Siebert (Lou Tanner).

The Staple

For a time after 1353, staple ports were established in England, under the Statute of the Staple: thus various English localities named "Stapleton" or "Stapleford."

Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam

Lord FitzWilliam married firstly Mary Stapleton, daughter of the leading Parliamentarian Sir Philip Stapleton, a somewhat surprising marriage given the deep division on religion and politics between the two families.

Walter King Stapleton

In 1970, Stapleton was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by Richard Nixon.

Won Mississippi

They have also supported the American indie band, Death Cab for Cutie and Scottish indie supremos Stapleton.

WRKO

Since the layoff of the news department in November 2006, Metro Networks has provided traffic reports, still styled "Skyway Patrol," with reporters Malcolm Alter, Bruce Adams, Joe Stapleton, Steve Hartman, Scott Pike, Mike Riley and Lisa Jackson.


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