Published Oct 11, 2005
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Gothamist's nomination for the spookiest place in NYC: the boat graveyard in Staten Island. We stumbled across a great gallery of pictures of it on Opacity today-- and then went back and got all the details on (where else?) Forgotten-NY. Halloween is coming up pretty soon.-- can anyone think of scarier spots in the five boroughs?
And Staten Island gets an Apple Store; score one for Richmond Hill.
Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.
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As the first city-sanctioned community garden celebrates its 50th anniversary, leaders of community gardens around the five boroughs share stories about cultivating green spaces and strengthening neighborhood ties.
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Five decades ago, the Liz Christy Community Garden on the Lower East Side was nothing more than a garbage-strewn vacant lot frequented by drug dealers. Donald Loggins was among the local residents who took control of it.
