Staten Island, Then and Now

Stand alongside professional photographers of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, poised on the thresholds of Staten Island's starkly changing landscapes.
Witness sensitively and prophetically recorded images of Staten Island's vanishing bucolic landscapes.
View more than 50 scenes of Staten Island's current built environment emerge from a rural/suburban past in a matter of a few moments, beckoning fond memories and posing disturbing quality of life questions about the hidden costs of a rapidly expanding built environment, emotionally and environmentally.