Excerpt from Legends, Stories and Folklore of Old Staten Islands, Vol. 1: The North Shore; From Printed Records, Manuscripts and the Memories of the Older Inhabitants The hillsides were dotted with the enormous homes in which the rich of those days indulged. Southern planters came up and swarmed the hotels during the warm months. In fact, so fashionable did this region become that anyone who was any one was sure to get his name on one or other of the hotel regis ters. Literary West New Brighton followed hard on the heels of fashionable New Brighton. Port Richmond which, under various names had been a ferry landing and settlement since the early days, now took unto itself its share of the new migrants and the prosperity which followed in their trail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This, my third book about Staten Island, takes a look into our islands rich and diverse past in a series of short stories. Be they myth, folklore, legend or tales, they have been past down from generation to generation. Some are proven true, some are believed to be false but the one thing they all have in common, they have been repeated time after time and they are fascinating stories. I am sure that some of these stories will bring up fond memories of Staten Islands past. Some of what you will discover in this book are, tales of a Mad Monk in St. Augustine Monastery, Lost Treasure off Staten Island shores, a story about a colorful character called The Indian Lady from Shooters Island, find out why a Nazi prisoner returned after his escape from the armys Halloran General Hospital (Willowbroow State School), discover the connection that Ichabod Crane, the Lindbergh baby, Willie Sutton and the Queen of England had to Staten Island, sit back and enjoy stories of stills and moonshine, gangsters, buried treasures, local ghosts and much more.