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Tag Archives: Staten Island

North Shore Runner

30-Sep-08

Staten Island resident Tom Curitore is running for Councilman of the North Shore, district 49, hoping to succeed Mike McMahon who’s looking to win the seat in Congress being vacated by Vito Fossella. I spent a Saturday with Tom on the 13th of September, an overcast day which worked well for the portraits I had [...]

There are no Strangers

24-Jul-08

On any day or evening at Fanelli’s in Soho, you’re likely to find a cross-section of Europeans curious to see what one of New York City’s oldest taverns is all about. It’s written up in most of the guide books; the old-world charm and simplicity of the space woos in a steady flow of regulars [...]

Pellet Crazy

08-Jul-08

Victory Boulevard, a major roadway which begins on the west coast of Staten Island in Travis runs way-north to the borough’s Tompkinsville section. It’s a street that emerges from a rural Mayberry-like neighborhood, widens as it cuts through the mid-section of the Island’s major strip malls, then narrows again into the bucolic residential area of [...]