Skip to main content
VVestiges of New York49,000+ historical photos
MapBrowseAboutGet the iPhone app (opens the App Store)
  1. Browse /
  2. Staten Island /
  3. This place

Edgewater Street & Sylva Lane, Staten Island

1 historical photo taken here in 1924.

See this spot on the map

Photos

  • Richmond: Edgewater Street - Sylva Lane, 1924

    Richmond: Edgewater Street - Sylva Lane

    1924

Stand where these photos were taken

The free OldNYC app for iPhone centers the map on you and shows the historical photos taken closest to where you are.
Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)
QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store

Or scan with your iPhone

Nearby places

  • Bay Street & Virginia Avenue, Staten Island (2 photos)
  • Wiman Place & Clifton Avenue, Staten Island (3 photos)
  • Bay Street & Church Lane, Staten Island (3 photos)
  • Bay Street & Camden Street, Staten Island (3 photos)

Explore

  • Map
  • Browse by place
  • Browse by decade

Boroughs

  • Manhattan
  • Brooklyn
  • Queens
  • Bronx
  • Staten Island

About

  • About and contact
  • Privacy

Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

OldNYC for iPhone

Find the historical photos taken closest to where you stand.

Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store
Richmond: Edgewater Street - Sylva Lane, 1924

Photo 1 of 1 at Edgewater Street & Sylva Lane, Staten Island

Richmond: Edgewater Street - Sylva Lane

1924

Edgewater Street (foreground), east side, at the foot of Sylva Lane, showing the boat house of the Clifton Boat Club, on the Upper New York Bay. Also shown are several freighters tied up to one of the wharves. P. L. Sperr 1924

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

See this spot on the mapView on NYPL Digital Collections (opens in a new tab)

See this photo in high resolution

Zoom into the full-resolution scan in the OldNYC app for iPhone with OldNYC Supporter ($4.99). The free app also centers the map on you, so you can find the photos taken closest to where you stand.
Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)
QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store

Or scan with your iPhone