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We live on a placid island
of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should
voyage far --H.P. Lovecraft |
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+Roadtrip::Staten Island, New
York+ |
explored: St. Augustian Monastery, Vanderbilt Tomb (Moravian Cemetary), John
King Vanderbilt House, NY Yacht Club (aka McFarlane-Bredt House),
the Dead Pool |
explored
& photographed by: Shady |
date: Sunday, April 7,
2002 |
I went on a Staten Island
adventure, and here is a taste of what I found... |
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Ancient,
crumbling, ominous, abandoned, desolate, legendary. All these words and more cannot
sum up the old St. Augustinian Monastery, which looms high on Grimes Hill, keeping a dark
and watchful eye over Staten Island spread out below. Wanna see MORE of the Monastery? Click here. To read more about our Staten Island road trip, check
out the April 7th entry in the road
notes |
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Below,
some of the other spots we hit up along the way- the "Watcher" standing atop one
of the Vanderbilt Tombs (left) in the Moravian
Cemetery. The decrepit old John King Vanderbilt House, built 1836 (second from
left) is "home" to somebody. The New York Yacht
Club (aka McFarlane-Bredt House) was built in 1842 (second from right) and is still
quite beautiful, despite it's decay. A large number of abandoned sailing vessels slowly
sink into their watery graves in the Dead Pool (right), where I
made a pretty bizarre discovery... click here
for the story. |
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Left, the gracefully arching Verrazano Narrows
Bridge, which we got lost on. At least it was a scenic trip. Heh heh. This pic was
shot at the end of the long, slanting lawn in front of the New York
Yacht Club (above,
second from right). It's a beautiful area. I couldn't help but picture what
this scene was like back in it's heyday, when the now crumbling house was a fancy Yacht
Club... wanna see MORE of it? Click here. |
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