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The cemetery opened in 1740 and is the largest and oldest active cemetery on Staten Island. Todt Hill is the highest natural point on the Eastern Seaboard between Cape Cod and Florida, rising to 410 feet (120 m). History. In 1865, Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the Moravian Church 8.5 acres (3.4 ha). Three years later, he donated an additional 45 ...
George "Big Georgie" DeCicco (March 20, 1929 - October 3, 2014 [1]) was a New York mobster and longtime captain in the Gambino crime family. DeCicco is one of the last captains of the old John Gotti administration in the 1980s who have not been under any indictment until now. DeCicco is the brother of former Gambino underboss Frank DeCicco, who ...
October 12, 1982 (landmarks 1204–1205: interiors of building C and chapel) Sailors' Snug Harbor, also known as Sailors Snug Harbor and informally as Snug Harbor, is a collection of architecturally significant 19th-century buildings on Staten Island, New York City. The buildings are set in an 83-acre (34 ha) park along the Kill Van Kull in New ...
Kreischer House, also known as Kreischer Mansion, is a historic home located at Charleston, Staten Island, New York City. Built by German immigrant Balthasar Kreischer about 1885, it is a large, asymmetrically massed -story, wood-frame house in the American Queen Anne style. The rectangular house features spacious verandas, gables with jigsaw ...
Added to NRHP. October 6, 2000. Designated NYCL. November 15, 1967. The Church of St. Andrew is a historic Episcopal church located at Arthur Kill and Old Mill Roads on the north side of Richmondtown in Staten Island, New York . The congregation was founded in 1708. The first church was built in 1708–1712 and expanded in 1770.
Ryan J. Reilly and Jonathan Dienst. WASHINGTON — The owner of a chain of funeral homes on Long Island was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday and charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the ...
The Cemetery of the Resurrection is a Catholic cemetery on the southern shore of Staten Island, in New York City. Notable burials. Joseph Armone (1917–1992), organized crime figure; William Cutolo, Sr. (1949–1999), underboss of the Colombo crime family; Dorothy Day (1897–1980), Catholic social activist recognized as a Servant of God
By AOL Autos Michael Scarpaci, a reputed Gambino associate who is about to begin a 25-month sentence after being convicted of a $20 million securities scam, has reinvented himself as quite the ...