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unusual facts about Sunnyside, 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.

Castleton Corners, Staten Island

Castleton Corners is separated from its eastern neighbor Sunnyside by Castleton Hill, noted for the two churches that stand across from one another on its western ridge—a Moravian church (Castleton Hill Moravian Church) on one side of Victory Boulevard and a Roman Catholic church (St. Teresa's) on the other.

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.

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.

Eric Gioia

He was elected to two year terms in 2001 and 2003 and to a four year term in 2005, representing the Queens neighborhoods of Woodside, Sunnyside, Maspeth, and Long Island City.

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.

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.

José de Jesús Noé

In 1845, Noe was granted the land known as Rancho San Miguel, which covered the neighborhoods now known as Noe Valley, Eureka Valley, Fairmont Heights, Glen Park and Sunnyside.

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.

Lands of Threepwood

A New Zealand flatworm (Arthurdendyus triangulatus) was found near Sunnyside of Threepwood in 2014.

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.

Marjorie Sewell Cautley

After Sunnyside Gardens, Cautley went on to work on the Phipps Garden Apartments in Sunnyside (1930), and Hillside Homes (1935), yet her most well known commission with Stein and Wright was at Radburn in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she continued to experiment with the lessons learned at Sunnyside.

Mary Grace Quackenbos

Quackenbos arrived at Sunnyside Plantation outside of Greenville, Mississippi in July 1907 to investigate the allegations.

Michael Gianaris

He represents New York's 12th State Senate district, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and parts of Woodside, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Woodhaven.

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.

Noguchi Museum

During renovation, the Museum relocated to a temporary space in Sunnyside, Queens, and held several thematic exhibitions of Noguchi’s work.

Obadiah Bowne

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

Osmunda wehrii

The cherts were recovered from sediments outcropping near the contact of the Roza Basalts and the overlying Priest Rapids Basalts, designated the type locality, near the town of Beverly, Washington by Fred Brinkman of Sunnyside, Washington.

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.

Randolph Perkins

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

Rebecca Martin

Martin began to apply Motian's less-is-more ethic to work after moving to the Sunnyside label with her 2008 release The Growing Season, produced by Kurt Rosenwinkel and featuring Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade on bass and drums, respectively.

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.

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.

Sarah-Jane and Anna Flannagan

The newspaper accounts also recorded the subsequent determination that Anna Flannagan was experiencing mental illness and needed to be admitted to Sunnyside Hospital from Lyttelton Gaol in 1892, as well as that of the appeal to William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow (the Governor General of New Zealand) for clemency in parliamentary official records, and a subsequent petition that requested the release of Anna Flannagan from Sunnyside in 1894.

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.

Staten Island Ninja

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

Sunnyside, Denver

The neighborhood is bounded by Union Pacific Railroad lines on the east, Interstate 70 on the north, Federal Boulevard on the West and 38th Avenue on the south.

Sunnyside, Toronto

The name originates in a local farm owned by John Howard, which was situated just to the north, on the location of the current St. Joseph's Health Centre hospital.

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 Brainiacs.com

In economics class, Matt debuts his plan as his assigned "create your own business" project, and attempts to open a bank account at the Sunnyside, California bank, which is owned by fellow businessman Ivan Lucre.

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

Wolfert Acker

One person who bought his land was Washington Irving who took an existing structure and made it into his romantic Sunnyside out of it.


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