Out on Staten Island

[70 Satterlee Street, Staten Island, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]

Just an old house from the far end of the Forgotten Borough. Save perhaps for the lookout (we’re not far from the Arthur Kill and Raritan Bay), it looks to me more like something from the dilapidated world of The Sound and the Fury. This house made it into the 1980s but is no longer standing.

Notice the car and workmen (?) to the left.

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Later that same day: There’s no trusting Google Maps, which shows nothing but an empty lot for 70 Satterlee Street. But this house still stands. And it’s a house with history: the Henry Hogg Biddle House, built in the 1840s. Here are two more views.

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