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A while back, I obtained some photographs that show the Staten Island Expressway and Verrazano Narrows Bridge under construction. Courtesy of the Staten Island Advance and Brooklyn Historical Society.
The first photograph below shows the footprint of the expressway. 1962. The Brooklyn tower of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge is in the background. Near Wagner college on in Sunnyside on Staten Island.
Workers construct the main road deck of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. June, 1963. Viewed from Fort Hamilton Pkwy. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
The Verrazano Narrows Bridge and Staten Island Expressway are several months away from opening day. April, 1964. Viewed from the Grymes Hill section of Staten Island.
Richard Ramaglia and George Scarpelli waited six days at the toll plaza to be the first two people to cross the bridge. November, 1964.
But if we did he would never be able to do what he did 60 years ago. He did have a unique knack for tearing out the hearts of neighborhoods with his roads.
Several years before I came along but still remember the SI of old as things didn't change much through the 1980's.
There is a film coming out about "old Staten Island" and the construction of the SIE/VZNB that will show much how the area looked before, during and after the finished product.
Several years before I came along but still remember the SI of old as things didn't change much through the 1980's.
There is a film coming out about "old Staten Island" and the construction of the SIE/VZNB that will show much how the area looked before, during and after the finished product.
You have to be kidding that not much changed through the 80s. Staten Island was pretty developed by then compared to when I was a kid and occasionally travelled there in the 1960s. It was rural.
now, almost every morsel of land in SI has some sort of house on it, now they are starting to make all townhomes all attatched together, just like the row houses of brooklyn, no lawn, all concrete.
there are so many new developments of SI that have really ruined the whole concept of the island.
In the 60's Hyland Blvd had hardly any light, you could breeze right thru, Amboy Rd was considered the back road and had almost no lights...
Homes had property, and grass and trees.....................................not so much when they build now.
All fugly ass townhome all stuck together, fugly.......
You have to be kidding that not much changed through the 80s. Staten Island was pretty developed by then compared to when I was a kid and occasionally travelled there in the 1960s. It was rural.
Suppose you are correct coming from that point of view. However still remember when much of Forest Avenue past Richmond was "rural" (going out towards Weissglass dairy), and even Richmond Ave going towards New Springville and beyond was open land.
now, almost every morsel of land in SI has some sort of house on it, now they are starting to make all townhomes all attatched together, just like the row houses of brooklyn, no lawn, all concrete.
there are so many new developments of SI that have really ruined the whole concept of the island.
In the 60's Hyland Blvd had hardly any light, you could breeze right thru, Amboy Rd was considered the back road and had almost no lights...
Homes had property, and grass and trees.....................................not so much when they build now.
All fugly ass townhome all stuck together, fugly.......
Do you know how many lights I've blown simply because am not used? *LOL*
Richmond Terrace after Jersey Street was pretty much light free until you got towards Port Richmond, not no more as I found out! *LOL*
Hylan Blvd is a disgrace. It is almost like the Westside Highway for the lights and amount of traffic.
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