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Were there really four airports here? Was the Staten Island Airport shut down each night to ensure no peril to the patrons of the drive-in theater? Is there truly a 150 foot dormant tunnel under the harbor between Staten Island and Brooklyn with the entrance capped in Brooklyn? In the 1930's, Which of Staten Island's best known restaurateurs, bought a house across the street from his famous restaurant and built a 200-foot tunnel between the house and the restaurant so that he could safely carry the day's receipts from the restaurant to his home. Did President John Kennedy, sip coffee at the St. George ferry terminal? Can you believe that a famous Island milk company resorted to rowboats to delivery milk to areas from Oakwood to Midland Beach during some of the worst storms to every hit that area? Did Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley have a Wild West show in 1886 down at Erastina (Mariners Harbor)? In what year was a bomb actually exploded on a Staten Island Ferry?

They say no good deed goes unpunished. A charitable invitation to a homeless, veteran to join him for lunch draws Jesuit priest Jack Bennis into an unexpected search for a missing girl and a dangerous serial killer with a unique method of disposing of the bodies of his victims. A serial killer is wandering the normally quiet streets of Staten Island. He kidnaps women and leaves their severed bodies floating in water. When Father Bennis invites a homeless Vietnam veteran to lunch, little does he suspect he is about to become involved in the search for the killer whom the press has labeled as “The Staten Island Butcher.” The killer’s latest victim is a former student of Fr. Bennis. Will Bennis and his brother, retired NYC homicide detective, Tom Cavanaugh, locate the girl and the killer before it’s too late? Could the police be right in assuming “The Staten Island Butcher” is actually the homeless vet Father Bennis has befriended? “The Staten Island Butcher” is the seventh suspense/thriller involving the priest and his brother. All the other novels in this stand-alone series are Blood Brothers, Collateral Consequences, Letters from the Dead, Random Acts of Malice, Unholy Retribution and Chasing the Devil’s Breath. His website is www.george-hopkins.com, and his author’s page on Amazon is amazon.com/author/georgehopkins.

Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, is still remembered fondly for the 5¢ Staten Island Ferry ride to Manhattan. The rolling hills of Staten Island greet ships as they enter the Narrows of New York Harbor and sail beneath the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. The island’s ever-evolving history dates back to days as a hunting ground of the Lenape Indian tribe. Today, it is a thriving suburban community. In this volume, the reader will explore the roots of this historic island, tour its streets, and meet some memorable Staten Islanders―Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of one of the largest fortunes in America;Governor Daniel Tompkins, who served as vice presidentof the United States under President Monroe; and AliceAusten, one of the pre-eminent women photographersof the nineteenth century. Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi and inventor Antonio Meucci created a legacy on the island, as did the oystermen from Snow Hill, Maryland, who founded Sandy Ground. The reader also glimpses historic charitable organizations such as Sailors’ Snug Harbor and Mount Loretto and visits the living village known as Historic Richmondtown.

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Known as "The Borough of Parks," Staten Island has been home to many families that were looking from a more quiet and serene way of life. With its diversified cultures and its vast amounts of arts and entertainment, this is what so many people found attractive. Staten Island is the southernmost part of the both the City and State of New York, with Conference House Park at the southern tip of the island and the state. The borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay. Here are some old time places in Staten Island, I am sure you never heard of, Skunk's Misery, Haunted Swamp, Gun Factory Road, Indian Hill, London Bridge, Owl's Hollow, Pig Alley and Burial Ridge. in this book there are 100 pages of Old Staten Island names from 1900.

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From the moment Giovanni da Verrazzano first spied it in 1524, Staten Island has been recognized as a verdant oasis at the mouth of one of the world's most breathtaking natural harbors. Since that time, Staten Island has evolved from a hunting ground and farming community to one of suburban homes and small businesses. People have been drawn to the island's bucolic surroundings to escape the urban sprawl consuming so much of the city. From lush valleys to commanding heights, Staten Island has provided inspiration for writers like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as providingopportunities for entrepreneurs like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Donald Trump, Charles Goodyear, and Daniel Tompkins. The area afforded sanctuary to people like Giuseppe Garibaldi, Don Antonio de Santa Anna, Maxim Gorky, Xhevdet Mustafa, and Gustave von Struve to escape persecution. Staten Island chronicles more than 400 years of the island's transformation, illustrating the dramatic changes that have taken place in the fastest growing county in New York State.

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Staten Island has a rich and fascinating cultural legacy that few people outside New York City's greenest borough know about. Chewing gum was invented on the island with the help of Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna. Country music legend Roy Clark got his start as a virtuoso guitar player on the Staten Island Ferry. Anna Leonowens, who worked with the king's children in the Court of Siam and was the basis for The King and I, came back to Staten Island to write about her experiences and run a school for children. Join native authors Theresa Anarumo and Maureen Seaberg as they document the hidden history of Staten Island.