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Friday, November 2, 2012

1890 Map South Shore Staten Island - Swampland


If Philly is New York's "Sixth Borough" here is a
1890 map of all the South Shore of Staten Island
Swampland - of the forgotten "fifth borough" of NYC
Ocean Front Land now under water -
Railway, now MTA line
running north to south,
built as far east as possible 
on solid ground in1890.